The History of Rome. Book II

20. II. VI. Last Campaigns in Samnium.

21. II. VII. Decline of the Roman Naval Power.

22. According to Servius (in Aen. iv. 628) it was stipulated in the Romano-Carthaginian treaties, that no Roman should set foot on (or rather occupy) Carthaginian, and no Carthaginian on Roman, soil, but Corsica was to remain in a neutral position between them (ut neque Romani ad litora Carthaginiensium accederent neque Carthaginienses ad litora Romanorum... Corsica esset media inter Romanos et Carthaginienses). This appears to refer to our present period, and the colonization of Corsica seems to have been prevented by this very treaty.

23. II. VII. Submission of Lower Italy.

24. The clause, by which a dependent people binds itself 'to uphold in a friendly manner the sovereignty of that of Rome' (maiestatem populi Romani comiter conservare), is certainly the technical appellation of that mildest form of subjection, but it probably did not come into use till a considerably later period (Cic. pro Balbo, 16, 35). The appellation of clientship derived from private law, aptly as in its very indefiniteness it denotes the relation (Dig. xlix. 15, 7, i), was scarcely applied to it officially in earlier times.

25. II. IV. South Etruria Roman.

26. II. VI. Consolidation of the Roman Rule in Central Italy.

27. II. VI. Last Struggles of Samnium.

28. II. V. Complete Submission of the Volscian and Campanian Provinces.

29. II. V. Complete Submission of the Volscian and Campanian Provinces.

30. That Tusculum as it was the first to obtain passive burgess-rights (II. V. Crises within the Romano-Latin League) was also the first to exchange these for the rights of full burgesses, is probable in itself and presumably it is in the latter and not in the former respect that the town is named by Cicero (pro Mur. 8, 19) municipium antiquissimum.

31. II. V. Complete Submission of the Volscian and Campanian Provinces.

32. II. IV. South Etruria Roman.

33. V. Cervio A. f. cosol dedicavit and lunonei Quiritri sacra. C. Falcilius L. f. consol dedicavit.

34. According to the testimony of Cicero (pro Caec. 35) Sulla gave to the Volaterrans the former ius of Ariminum, that is - adds the orator - the ius of the 'twelve colonies' which had not the Roman civitas but had full commercium with the Romans. Few things have been so much discussed as the question to what places this ius of the twelve towns refers; and yet the answer is not far to seek. There were in Italy and Cisalpine Gaul - laying aside some places that soon disappeared again - thirty-four Latin colonies established in all. The twelve most recent of these - Ariminum, Beneventum, Firmum, Aesernia, Brundisium, Spoletium, Cremona, Placentia, Copia, Valentia, Bononia, and Aquileia - are those here referred to; and because Ariminum was the oldest of these and the town for which this new organization was primarily established, partly perhaps also because it was the first Roman colony founded beyond Italy, the ius of these colonies rightly took its name from Ariminum. This at the same time demonstrates the truth of the view - which already had on other grounds very high probability - that all the colonies established in Italy (in the wider sense of the term) after the founding of Aquileia belonged to the class of burgess-colonies.

We cannot fully determine the extent to which the curtailment of the rights of the more recent Latin towns was carried, as compared with the earlier.  If intermarriage, as is not improbable but is in fact anything but definitely established (i. 132; Diodor. p. 590, 62, fr. Vat. p. 130, Dind.), formed a constituent element of the original federal equality of rights, it was, at any rate, no longer conceded to the Latin colonies of more recent origin.

35. II. V. League with the Hernici.

36. II. VI. Pacification of Campania.

37. II. VI. Victory of the Romans.

38. II. VII. The War in Italy Flags.

39. It is to be regretted that we are unable to give satisfactory information as to the proportional numbers. We may estimate the number of Roman burgesses capable of bearing arms in the later regal period as about 20,000. (I. VI. Time And Occasion of the Reform) Now from the fall of Alba to the conquest of Veii the immediate territory of Rome received no material extension; in perfect accordance with which we find that from the first institution of the twenty-one tribes about 259, (II. II. Coriolanus) which involved no, or at any rate no considerable, extension of the Roman bounds, no new tribes were instituted till 367. However abundant allowance we make for increase by the excess of births over deaths, by immigration, and by manumissions, it is absolutely impossible to reconcile with the narrow limits of a territory of hardly 650 square miles the traditional numbers of the census, according to which the number of Roman burgesses capable of bearing arms in the second half of the third century varied between 104,000 and 150,000, and in 362, regarding which a special statement is extant, amounted to 152,573. These numbers must rather stand on a parallel with the 84,700 burgesses of the Servian census; and in