ocr: statesmen or dominant ruling families. Its citizenry was made up of well-to-do landowners, prosperous manufacturers and merchants, tradesmen, craftsmen, artisans, drifters, and slaves who could aspire to and achieve the condition of freedmen. The city was governed by a Council of Notables, chosen annually in elections conducted with all the vivacity and heat ofa southern population. The balance of power among the various classes of citizens, and between the local autonomy of the city and the authority oft the Roman state, created the mixed rule of the privileged and the populace that was, at b ...
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