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Organization of Latium 373
was restored to them with this provision, that the temple
and grove of Juno Sospita should be common between the
Lanuvian burshers and the Roman people. The Aricians,
Full Romaa
° citizenship.
Nomentans, and Pedans were admitted into the number of
citizens on the same terms as the Lanuvians. To the Tusculans
the rights of citizenship which they already possessed
were continued; and the crime of rebellion was
turned . . . against a few instigators. On the Veliternians,
Roman citizens of long standing, measures of great
severity were inflicted because they had so often rebelled;
their walls were razed and their senate removed from Loss of all
rights.
thence, and they were ordered to dwell on the other side of
the Tiber, so that the fine of any individual who should
be caught on the hither side of that river should amount
to one hundred asses; and that the person who had apprehended
him, should not discharge his prisoner from confinement,
until the money was paid down.
Into the land of
the senators colonists were sent; from the additions of
which Velitrae recovered its appearance of former populousness.
A new colony was also sent to Antium, with this provi-
sion that if the Antians desired to be enrolled as colonists,
permission to that effect should be granted. Their ships
of war were removed from thence, and the people of Antium
were interdicted the sea, and the rights of citizenship
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were granted them. The Tiburtians and Prsenestines
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were amerced in some land, not only on account of the free alUes.
recent guilt of the rebellion, which was common to them
with the other Latins; but also because from their dislike
to the Roman government, they had formerly associated
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in arms with the Gauls, a nation of savages.
other Latin states they took away the privileges of intermarriage,
commerce, and of holding meetings. To the