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To some extent the unwieldiness of a civic community so constituted was remedied, for the purposes of justice and of administration, by the deputy judges previously mentioned; and already perhaps the maritime and the new Picenian and Trans- Apennine colonies exhibited at least the first lineaments of the system under which afterwards smaller urban communities were organized within the great city-commonwealth of Rome.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

To some extent the unwieldiness of a civic community so constituted was remedied, for the purposes of justice and of administration, by the deputy judges previously mentioned; and already perhaps the maritime and the new Picenian and Trans- Apennine colonies exhibited at least the first lineaments of the system under which afterwards smaller urban communities were organized within the great city-commonwealth of Rome.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)