For they prohibited them from receiving addresses of thanks on their administration, or any other public mark of acknowledgment, lest they should come to think that their merit or demerit consisted in the good or ill opinion of the people over whom they ruled.

They dreaded either a relaxation of government, or a dangerous influence in the legate, from the exertion of an humanity too popular.
These are some of the civil and political methods by which the Romans held their dominion over conquered nations; but even in peace they kept up a great military establishment.

They looked upon the interior country to be sufficiently secured by the colonies; their forces were therefore generally quartered on the frontiers.

There they had their _stativa_, or stations, which were strong intrenched camps, many of them fitted even for a winter residence.

The communication between these camps, the colonies, and the municipal towns was formed by great roads, which they called military ways.