Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- CHAPTER I CHANGE OF THE CONSTITUTION.—LIMITATION OF THE POWER OF THE MAGISTRATE
- CHAPTER II THE TRIBUNATE OF THE PLEBS AND THE DECEMVIRATE
- CHAPTER III THE EQUALIZATION OF THE ORDERS AND THE NEW ARISTOCRACY
- CHAPTER IV FALL OF THE ETRUSCAN POWER. THE CELTS
- CHAPTER V SUBJUGATION OF THE LATINS AND CAMPANIANS BY ROME
- CHAPTER VI STRUGGLE OF THE ITALIANS AGAINST ROME
- CHAPTER VII THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PYRRHUS AND ROME
- CHAPTER VIII LAW. RELIGION. MILITARY SYSTEM. ECONOMIC CONDITION. NATIONALITY
- CHAPTER IX ART AND SCIENCE
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
CHAPTER V - SUBJUGATION OF THE LATINS AND CAMPANIANS BY ROME
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFATORY NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR
- EXTRACT FROM DR. MOMMSEN'S PREFACE
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST THE PERIOD ANTERIOR TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY
- BOOK SECOND FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHY IN ROME TO THE UNION OF ITALY
- CHAPTER I CHANGE OF THE CONSTITUTION.—LIMITATION OF THE POWER OF THE MAGISTRATE
- CHAPTER II THE TRIBUNATE OF THE PLEBS AND THE DECEMVIRATE
- CHAPTER III THE EQUALIZATION OF THE ORDERS AND THE NEW ARISTOCRACY
- CHAPTER IV FALL OF THE ETRUSCAN POWER. THE CELTS
- CHAPTER V SUBJUGATION OF THE LATINS AND CAMPANIANS BY ROME
- CHAPTER VI STRUGGLE OF THE ITALIANS AGAINST ROME
- CHAPTER VII THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN PYRRHUS AND ROME
- CHAPTER VIII LAW. RELIGION. MILITARY SYSTEM. ECONOMIC CONDITION. NATIONALITY
- CHAPTER IX ART AND SCIENCE
- APPENDIX: ON THE PATRICIAN CLAUDII
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
Summary
The hegemony of Rome over Latium shaken and re-established.
The great achievement of the regal period was the establish- of the sovereignty of Rome over Latium, under the form of hegemony. It is in the nature of the case evident that the change in the constitution of Rome could not but powerfully affect both the relation of the Roman state towards. Latium, and the internal organization of the Latin Wished, communities themselves; and that it did so is obvious from tradition. The fluctuations which the revolution; in Rome occasioned in the Romano-Latin confederacy are attested by the legend, unusually vivid and various in its hues, of the victory at the Lake Regillus, which the dictator or consul, Aulus Postumius (255? 258?) is said to have gained over the Latins with the help of the Dioscuri, and still more definitely by the renewal of the perpetual league between Rome and Latium by Spurius Cassius in his second consulate (261). These narratives, however, give us no in- formation as to the main matter, the legal relation between the new Roman republic and the Latin confederacy; and what from other sources we learn regarding that relation comes to us without date, and can only be inserted here with an approximation to probability.
Original equality of rights between Rome and Latium.
The nature of a hegemony implies that it becomes gradually converted into sovereignty by the mere inward force of circumstances; and the Roman hegemony over Latium formed no exception to the rule.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 349 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1862