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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. III.
cordingly treated not as a conquered but an allied
republic. She was admitted at an early period
to all the privileges and honors of the great Ca-
pital, and shared, it seems, not only the fran-
chises but even the riches of Rome; as she could
count at one period five hundred Roman knights
among her citizens, and drew by her manufac-
tures, from the emporium of the world, no small
portion of the tribute of the provinces.
After having shared the glory of Rome, Padua
partook of her disasters; was, like her, assaulted
and plundered by Alaric and Attila; like her, was
half unpeopled by the flight of her dismayed in-
habitants, and obliged to bend under the yoke
of a succession of barbarian invaders. After the
expulsion of the Goths, Rome recovered her in-
dependence; not so Padua, which was subject
successively to the Lombards, to the Franks, and
to the Germans. During this long period of dis-
astrous vicissitude, Padua sometimes enjoyed the
favor and sometimes felt the fury of its wayward
tyrants. At length it shook off the yoke, and
with its sister states, Verona, Vicenza, Ferrara,
and Mantua, experienced the advantages and
disadvantages of republicanism, occasionally
blessed with the full enjoyment of freedom, and
occasionally, with all its forms, smarting under the
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. III.
cordingly treated not as a conquered but an allied
republic. She was admitted at an early period
to all the privileges and honors of the great Ca-
pital, and shared, it seems, not only the fran-
chises but even the riches of Rome; as she could
count at one period five hundred Roman knights
among her citizens, and drew by her manufac-
tures, from the emporium of the world, no small
portion of the tribute of the provinces.
After having shared the glory of Rome, Padua
partook of her disasters; was, like her, assaulted
and plundered by Alaric and Attila; like her, was
half unpeopled by the flight of her dismayed in-
habitants, and obliged to bend under the yoke
of a succession of barbarian invaders. After the
expulsion of the Goths, Rome recovered her in-
dependence; not so Padua, which was subject
successively to the Lombards, to the Franks, and
to the Germans. During this long period of dis-
astrous vicissitude, Padua sometimes enjoyed the
favor and sometimes felt the fury of its wayward
tyrants. At length it shook off the yoke, and
with its sister states, Verona, Vicenza, Ferrara,
and Mantua, experienced the advantages and
disadvantages of republicanism, occasionally
blessed with the full enjoyment of freedom, and
occasionally, with all its forms, smarting under the