But it had been successful.

It had made a great people, and had produced a wide-spread civilization.

Roman citizenship was to those outside the one thing the most worthy to be obtained.

That career which led the great Romans up from the state of Quaestor to the AEdile's, Praetor's, and Consul's chair, and thence to the rich reward of provincial government, was held to be the highest then open to the ambition of man.

The Kings of Greece, and of the East, and of Africa were supposed to be inferior in their very rank to a Roman Proconsul, and this greatness was carried on with a semblance of liberty, and was compatible with a belief in the majesty of the Roman citizen.