discussed more fully, exactly and satisfactorily, than in any other account that we have been able to find. We hope that the article itself, as well as the learned notes of the author, will prove useful to teachers and all others, who are interested in obtaining exact information on the subject of Roman Slavery.—TR.] In Rome, as in all the States of antiquity, the whole population fell into two classes, the liberi and the servi, the free, and the not free, or the slaves. In the earliest periods,