Note 488 — Chapter IV · THE CENTURIES AND THE CLASSES
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Beloch, Bevölk. d. griech.-röm. Welt, 53; Meyer, Forsch. z. alt. Gesch. ii. 162, n. 3; Delbrück, ibid. i. 14. Ferrero’s estimate (Greatness and Decline of Rome, i. 1) of a total population of 150,000 seems to be too large.