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In this case all the dispossessed burgesses but these only were deprived of their municipal, and at the same time of the Roman, franchise, receiving in return the lowest Latin rights. Sulla thus avoided furnishing the opposition with a nucleus in Italian subject-communities of inferior rights; the homeless dispossessed of necessity were soon lost in the mass of the proletariate.

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

In this case all the dispossessed burgesses but these only were deprived of their municipal, and at the same time of the Roman, franchise, receiving in return the lowest Latin rights. Sulla thus avoided furnishing the opposition with a nucleus in Italian subject-communities of inferior rights; the homeless dispossessed of necessity were soon lost in the mass of the proletariate.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book IV : The Revolution