Roman society in the last century of the Western empire / by Samuel Dill.

Book I. The tenacity of Paganism -- The pagan aristocracy and the confusion of parties -- The last conflicts of paganism with the christian empire -- S. Augustine and Orosius on the capture of Rome -- Some causes of the vitality of the later paganism -- Book II. Sketches of western society form Symmachus to Sidonius -- The indictment of heathen and christian moralists -- The society of Q. Aurelius Symmachus -- The society of Aquitaine in the time of Ausonius -- The society of Apollinaris Sidonius -- Book III. THe failure of administration, and the ruin of the middle class, as revealed by the Theodosian code -- The disorganisation of the public service --
The decay of the middle class and the aggrandisement of the aristocracy -- Book IV. The barbarians and the future of the empire -- The general character of the invasions -- Roman feeling about the invasions and the future of the empire -- Relations of Romans with the invaders -- Book V. Characteristics of Roman education and culture in the fifth century.