Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Traducción:
- Jehu Baker
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~190.000 palabras · 884 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAMontesquieu. (n.d.). Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans (Jehu Baker, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/considerations-on-the-causes-of-the-grandeur-and-decadence-of-the-romans
- MLAMontesquieu. Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans. Translated by Jehu Baker. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/considerations-on-the-causes-of-the-grandeur-and-decadence-of-the-romans.
- ChicagoMontesquieu. Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans. Translated by Jehu Baker. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/montesquieu/considerations-on-the-causes-of-the-grandeur-and-decadence-of-the-romans.
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De qué trata
El libro donde Montesquieu explica por qué Roma creció y por qué cayó, y sostiene que no fue la fortuna sino causas que pueden enumerarse.
Contexto e historia
Publicado en 1734, catorce años antes de El espíritu de las leyes, se lee como su ensayo previo: aquí prueba con un caso concreto el método que luego aplicará a todo. La frase que se le cita es que si una batalla arruinó un estado, había una causa general que hacía que aquel estado debiera perecer por una sola batalla. Es también una obra política encubierta: quien hablaba de la decadencia de Roma hablaba de la monarquía francesa, y sus lectores lo sabían.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
her public structures. The works which heretofore have given, and which yet give, the highest idea of her power, were constructed under the kings.' (a) The building of the eternal city was already commenced. For the purpose of procuring citizens, wives or lands, Eomulus and his successors were almost incessantly engaged in war with their neighbors. They returned home bringing with them the spoils of vanquished peoples— consisting of herds of cattle and sheaves of grain. These were occasions of great rejoicing in the city ; and such was the origin of those Triumphs, which were in after times the principal cause of the grandeur of the Eomans. The power of Eome was greatly increased by her tinion with the Sabines, a people as hardy and as warlike as the Lacedaemonians, from whom they were descended. Eomulus adopted their buckler, which was large, instead of the small Argive buckler which he had previously used.' And it should be noted, that the circumstance which contributed most to render the Eomans masters of the world was, that having contended successively against all nations, they invariably renounced their own usages as soon as they found better. ° Witnesa the astonishment of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in connection with the sewers constructed by Tarquin. (Ant. Horn. Book III ) They exist yet, (a) Consult my Note at the end of this chapter. — Tkanslator, * Plutarch, Idfe of Emnulvs. CHAP. I.] OP THE ROMANS.…