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Colonies.
Definitions
of Municipia.
Festus 127.
Livy viii. 14
A ncient
World, 356 f.
372 Roman Organization
upon which the censors ordered the names of those to be
inscribed whom they deprived of their vote. But colonies
stand in another relationship; the}^ do not enter into the
franchise from without, nor do they claim it b)^ their
origin, but they are, as it were, the offspring of the state,
and are of necessity subject to the laws and institutes of
the Romans; which condition, though it be more exposed
and less free, is yet deemed more desirable and respectable,
on account of the amplitude and majesty of the Roman
people.
A municipium is defined as that class of men, who when
they came to Rome, were not Roman citizens but participated
with the Roman citizens in everything connected
with the performance of duties, with the exception of voting
and holding office; such as were the people of Fundi,
Formiae, Cumae, Acerrse, Lanuvium, and Tusculum, who
after some years were made Roman citizens. A second
definition applies the term to those whose entire state has
come into the Roman citizenship, as Aricia, Caere, and
Anagnia. Thirdly this class is defined as those who have
entered the Roman state on condition of remaining municipes
of
their several states and colonies, as the people
of Pisa, Urbinum, Nola, Bononia, Placentia, Nepete,
Sutrium, and Luca.
Organization The principal members of the senate applauded the
of Latium
and Campania
under
consul's statement of the business on the whole; but said
Rome, that "as the states were differently circumstanced, the
338 B.C.
proposal might be readily adjusted so that it might be
determined according to the desert of each, if they should
put the question regarding each state specifically. The
question was therefore so put regarding each separately
and a decree passed. To the Lanuvians the right of citizenship
was granted, and the exercise of their religious rights