Chapter 31

The foreign rule, therefore, gets more and more distasteful to the governed. For half a lifetime they wonder at it: then they grow restive, finding themselves despised to no purpose. Then they permanently rebel. At last the unnatural tyranny breaks down. When it breaks down the governors gradually depart and little impress of their foreign rule remains. It was so apparently between Carthage and her dependencies. But when the governors expend themselves for the good of the governed, an amalgamation takes place betwe…