By this way of proceeding, that I may be as brief
as possible, she did many and great things. For in confirming of
liberty, she propagated her empire; in holding the inhabitants
from rebellion, she put a curb upon the incursion of enemies; in
exonerating herself of the poorer sort, she multiplied her
citizens; in rewarding her veterans, she rendered the rest less
seditious; and in acquiring to herself the reverence of a common
parent, she from time to time became the mother of new-born
cities.
"In her further growth the way of her propagation went more
upon leagues, which for the first division were of two kinds,
social and provincial.
"Again, social leagues, or leagues of society, were of two
kinds:
"The first called Latinity or Latin, the second Italian
right." The league between the Romans and the Latins, or Latin
right, approached nearest to jus quiritium, or the right of a
native Roman. The man or the city that was honored with this
right, was civitate donatus cum suffragio, adopted a citizen of
Rome, with the right of giving suffrage with the people in some
cases, as those of conformation of law, or determination in
judicature, if both the Consuls were agreed, not otherwise;
wherefore that coming to little, the greatest and most peculiar
part of this privilege was, that who had borne magistracy (at
least that of oedile or quoestor) in any Latin city, was by
consequence of the same a citizen of Rome at all points.
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