keenly-felt

Updated: May 28, 2025

Legally the former might be no better founded than the latter; but, while in the latter case the matter at stake was the private interests of members of the state, in reference to the Latin possessions the question arose, whether it was politically right to give fresh offence to communities so important in a military point of view and already so greatly estranged from Rome by numerous disabilities de jure and de facto through this keenly-felt injury to their material interests.

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