"Italian right was also a donation of the city, but without
suffrage: they who were in either of these leagues, were governed
by their own laws and magistrates, having all the rights, as to
liberty, of citizens of Rome, yielding and praying to the
commonwealth as head of the league, and having in the conduct of
all affairs appertaining to the common cause, such aid of men and
money as was particularly agreed to upon the merit of the cause,
and specified in their respective leagues, whence such leagues
came to be called equal or unequal accordingly.
"Provincial leagues were of different extension, according to
the merit and capacity of a conquered people; but they were all
of one kind, for every province was governed by Roman
magistrates, as a praetor or a proconsul, according to the
dignity of the province, for the civil administration and conduct
of the provincial army, and a quaestor for the gathering of the
public revenue, from which magistrates a province might appeal to
Rome.
"For the better understanding of these particulars, I shall
exemplify in as many of them as is needful, and first in Macedon:
"The Macedonians were thrice conquered by the Romans, first
under the conduct of Titus Quintus Flaminius; secondly, under
that of Lucius AEmilius Paulus; and, thirdly under that of
Quintus Caecilius Metellus, thence called Macedonicus.
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