Note 1 — Chapter I · PROLOGUE
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Heitland’s contentions in The Roman Fate and Iterum seem, however, unduly to emphasize the want of power in the central government to remedy weaknesses throughout the empire. His views regarding the stagnation resultant upon “the inability of the passive parts to vitalize the whole” are not wholly applicable to the first two centuries from Augustus: see H. M. Last, J.R.S., XV., 1925, Pt. I.