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Similar though less extensive warlike preparations were made at other points of Italy. The Transpadanes were so excited that they seemed only waiting for the signal to strike. In the Bruttian country, on the east coast of Italy, in Capua wherever great bodies of slaves were accumulated a second slave insurrection like that of Spartacus seemed on the eve of arising.
Communication could not be held with him by way of the sea, since Pompeius commanded the seas. For this purpose they reckoned on the Transpadanes the old clients of the democracy among whom there was great agitation, and who would of course have at once received the franchise and, further, on different Celtic tribes. The threads of this combination reached as far as Mauretania.
It is obvious that the intrinsic inconsistency of the Gracchan policy in abetting at once the effort of the excluded to obtain admission into the circle of the privileged, and the effort of the privileged to maintain their distinctive rights had passed over to their successors; while Caesar and his friends on the one hand held forth to the Transpadanes the prospect of the franchise, they on the other hand gave their assent to the continuance of the disabilities of the freedmen, and to the barbarous setting aside of the rivalry which the industry and trading skill of the Hellenes and Orientals maintained with the Italians in Italy itself.
The Transpadanes, who possessed according to the existing constitution only Latin rights, were treated by Caesar during his administration practically as full burgesses of Rome.
IV. IX. Government of Cinna, IV. X. Punishments Inflicted on Particular Communities IV. XII. Oriental Religions in Italy V. V. Transpadanes IV. X. Cisalpine Gaul Erected into a Province V. IV. Cyprus Annexed IV. VI. Violent Proceedings in the Voting V. IV. Cyprus Annexed IV. I. The Callaeci Conquered IV. IX. Spain V. I. Renewed Outbreak of the Spanish Insurrection V. I. Pompeius in Gaul
Transpadanes Freedmen But, above all, efforts were made to complete the democratic restoration and to realize the leading ideas of the Gracchan period in a form suitable to the times. The election of the priests by the comitia, which Gnaeus Domitius had introduced and Sulla had again done away, was established by a law of the tribune of the people Titus Labienus in 691.
IV. II. The First Sicilian Slave War II. VII. Intermediate Fuctionaries, III. III. Autonomy III. XI. Supervision of the Senate Over the Provinces and Their Governors I. XI. Character of the Roman Law IV. XIII. Philology I. XI. Clients and Foreigners V. XI. Usury Laws V. V. Transpadanes I. XIV. Italian Measures ff. III. XII. Coins and Moneys
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