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Updated: June 13, 2025
All the original Latin towns, even the Tusculans who had been received into the burgess-union of Rome, took up arms against Rome, with the single exception of the Laurentes, whereas of the colonies founded beyond the bounds of Latium only the old Volscian towns Velitrae, Antium, and Tarracina adhered to the revolt.
In other respects the several places retained their former privileges and their autonomy. The other old-Latin communities as well as the colonies that had revolted lost all of them independence and entered in one form or another into the Roman burgess-union.
The ancient and wealthy mercantile city of Gades, whose municipal system Caesar even when praetor had remodelled suitably to the times, now obtained from the Imperator the full rights of the Italian -municipia- and became what Tusculum had been in Italy the first extra-Italian community not founded by Rome which was admitted into the Roman burgess-union.
In other respects the several places retained their former privileges and their autonomy. The other old-Latin communities as well as the colonies that had revolted lost all of them independence and entered in one form or another into the Roman burgess-union.
Still less is the fact that a number of Alban families were received into the burgess-union of Rome inconsistent with the destruction of Alba by the Romans. Why may there not have been a Roman party in Alba just as there was in Capua?
The two important coast towns Antium and Tarracina were, after the model of Ostia, occupied with Roman full-burgesses and restricted to a communal independence confined within narrow limits, while the previous burgesses were deprived in great part of their landed property in favour of the Roman colonists and, so far as they retained it, likewise adopted into the full burgess-union.
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