629] [Footnote 153: The republic of Europe, with the pope and emperor at its head, was never represented with more dignity than in the council of Constance.

See Lenfant's History of that assembly.] [Footnote 154: Gravina, Origines Juris Civilis, p.

108.] If we annihilate the interval of time and space between Augustus and Charles, strong and striking will be the contrast between the two Caesars; the Bohemian who concealed his weakness under the mask of ostentation, and the Roman, who disguised his strength under the semblance of modesty.

At the head of his victorious legions, in his reign over the sea and land, from the Nile and Euphrates to the Atlantic Ocean, Augustus professed himself the servant of the state and the equal of his fellow-citizens.

The conqueror of Rome and her provinces assumed a popular and legal form of a censor, a consul, and a tribune.