The history of Rome

Abstract

THE state of breathless excitement, in which the revolution State of kept the Roman government by perpetually renewing the the East. alarm of fire and the cry to quench it, made them lose sight of provincial matters generally; and ,that most of all in the case of the Asiatic lands, whose remote and unwarlike nations did not thrust themselves so directly on the attention of the government as Africa, Spain, and its Transalpine neighbors.