privernate

Updated: May 12, 2025

In order to rear a population devoted to Rome in these regions, they distributed, out of the lands won in war particularly in the Privernate and Falernian territories, so numerous allotments to Roman burgesses, that a few years later they were able to institute there also two new tribes. The establishment of two fortresses as colonies with Latin rights finally secured the newly won land.

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

In order to rear a population devoted to Rome in these regions, they distributed, out of the lands won in war particularly in the Privernate and Falernian territories, so numerous allotments to Roman burgesses, that a few years later they were able to institute there also two new tribes. The establishment of two fortresses as colonies with Latin rights finally secured the newly won land.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy