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Note 1409 — Chapter VII · THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ROME AND THE INCORPORATION OF ITALY

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Livy, by attributing civitas to Tusculum (vi. 26) and calling the Tusculans cives (vi. 36), seems to imply that they were full citizens. In this case the city could not have been from the first a municipium, the name it bears later (“municipium antiquissimum” Cic. pro Planc. 8, 19). Festus, however (p. 127), includes Tusculum amongst the states with civitas sine suffragio, i.e. amongst the true municipia, and we know that Livy (x. 1) uses civitas for civitas sine suffragio. The Satricani are cives Romani in 319 B.C. (Liv. ix. 16). Satricum had formerly belonged to the thirty Latin cities (Dionys. v. 61).

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