h the present chapter refers, though the aristocracy ofbirth was beginning to give way to the far more objectionable aristocracyof money. Such was the influence of wealth, that the Quaestors or tax-collectors became members of the Senate as vacancies occurred, andthe enormous riches of these… … rostrate greatness alwaysoffers an invitingmark to upstart little-ness ; and the storyof the Lion couchantkicked by the Jackassrampant, is as old,at least, as the dayswhen Rome, exhaust-ed by her wars withCarthage, was attack-ed by the imbecileinhabitants of thefeeble city of Falerii.Had the…
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