The Macedonian Empire and the Greek world which it had absorbed became, before many generations has passed, a part of the wider Empire of Rome. Rome has given us the words “citizen” and “civic.” What does the Roman state contribute to our conception of civic life? Rome, like Athens, started as a city-state, and for a long time she was only one among many sovereign cities in Intaly. But when Rome, by strength of character and a genius for war and government, became the dominant power in the peninsula, she came face to face with a problem which no city of Greece had solved, how to adapt the habits and constitution of a city-state to the government of widely scattered communities in Intaly and distant provinces beyond the sea.