Note 180 — Chapter III · CONQUEST OF ITALY. (From 416 to 488.)
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Because it named its magistrates, struck money (Mommsen, Münzwesen, p. 317), privileges refused to the Roman colonies, and preserved its own peculiar laws according to the principle: “Nulla populi Romani lege adstricti, nisi in quam populus eorum fundus factus est.” (Aulus Gellius, XVI. xiii. 6.—Compare Cicero, Oration for Balbus, viii. 21.)