Note 718 — Chapter VI · THE GRACCHI, MARIUS, AND SYLLA. (621-676.)
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“A great number of allies and Latins were deprived by one man of the right of city, which had been given to them for their numerous and honourable services.” (Speech of Lepidus, Sallust, Fragm., I. 5.)—“We have seen the Roman people, at the proposal of the dictator Sylla, take, in the comitia of centuries, the right of city from several municipal towns; we have seen it also depriving them of the lands they possessed.... As to the right of city, the interdiction did not last even so long as the military despotism of the dictator.” (Cicero, Speech for his House, 30.)