ABSTRACT
THE various changes which were made in the higher offices of State during this second period have but a minor interest in their bearing upon the subject under consideration here. We are little concerned to know that Sulla nearly suppressed the powers of the tribunes and to a certain extent abolished the censorship, that Pompey and Crassus vigorously attacked the régime which Sulla had instituted, that the Senate was deprived by Caesar of the greater part of its influence whilst the comitiae shared with the head of the State their electoral prerogatives, or that laws concerning public security were added at the end of the Republic to the existing body of legislation. Industry, agriculture and commerce were only very indirectly affected by the various new schemes enacted successively by the triumphant dictators. A closer study may well be made, however, of the extension of the jus civitatis, the administrative system imposed upon the provinces and the transformation of private law.
