change culminated with Augustus, who, among other things, created a professional army that restricted military service to a select, relatively few Roman citizens. How this and other institutional changes might have affected historians’ ideas about virtus Balmaceda does not consider. But to fully understand how virtus functioned in the works of historians during the period of the late Republic and early Empire, one must consider and know about things beyond literature. A just conclusion to a review of this book might be—τὸ τὰ αὑτοῦ πράττειν.

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变革以奥古斯都告终，除其他外，奥古斯都创建了一支职业军队，将兵役限制在少数罗马公民中。这种和其他制度变化可能如何影响历史学家关于 virtus Balmaceda 的想法没有考虑。但要充分理解民国晚期和帝国早期历史学家作品中的美德如何发挥作用，就必须考虑和了解文学以外的东西。对这本书的评论的一个公正结论可能是——τὸ τὰ αὑτοῦ πράττειν。