”نئی نسل کو، دنیاوی مہارت ورثہ میں ملی، وقت نہیں تھا یا دفاع کی رغبت نہیں تھی; that readiness for war which had characterized the Roman landowner disappeared now that ownership was concentrated in a few families and a proletariat without stake in the country filled the slums of Rome۔” (ص۔ 90)