Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- The Latin State
- The League with the Latins
- Of the Colonies
- On the Rights of Isopolity and Municipium
- On the Franchise of the Latins
- The League with the Hernicans
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians, down to the end of the Veientine War
- The Office of Warden of the City
- The Internal Feuds of the Patricians
- Of the Public Land and its Occupation
- The Assignments of Land before the time of Sp. Cassius
- The Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius, and his Death
- The seven Consulships of the Fabii
- The Veientine War
- Internal History from the Destruction of the Fabii to the first Pestilence
- The Legend of Coriolanus
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians down to the Peace of 295
- The Æquian War down to the Decemvirate
- Disasters and extraordinary Phenomena
- Civil History of the eleven Years preceding the Decemvirate
- The first Decemvirs, and their Laws
- The second Decemvirate
- The first Year after the Restoration of Freedom
- Civil Commotions down to the Constitution of 311
- The Consular Military Tribunate
- The Censorship
- Civil Affairs from the Year 311 down to the last Veientine War
- On the Pay of the Troops
- The Wars down to the Last with Veii
- The last War with Veii
- The other Wars down to that with the Gauls
- Internal History down to the War with the Gauls
- Physical History from 305 to 365
- On the Gauls, and their Immigration into Italy
- The War with the Gauls, and the Taking of Rome
- On the Olympiad and Year of the Taking of Rome
- Rome after the Departure of the Gauls
- The Wars down to the Reform of 384
- Civil History down to the Year 374
- Appendix I On the Roman Mode of Partitioning Landed Property, and on the Limitatio
- Appendix II On the Agrimensores
Of the Colonies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- The Latin State
- The League with the Latins
- Of the Colonies
- On the Rights of Isopolity and Municipium
- On the Franchise of the Latins
- The League with the Hernicans
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians, down to the end of the Veientine War
- The Office of Warden of the City
- The Internal Feuds of the Patricians
- Of the Public Land and its Occupation
- The Assignments of Land before the time of Sp. Cassius
- The Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius, and his Death
- The seven Consulships of the Fabii
- The Veientine War
- Internal History from the Destruction of the Fabii to the first Pestilence
- The Legend of Coriolanus
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians down to the Peace of 295
- The Æquian War down to the Decemvirate
- Disasters and extraordinary Phenomena
- Civil History of the eleven Years preceding the Decemvirate
- The first Decemvirs, and their Laws
- The second Decemvirate
- The first Year after the Restoration of Freedom
- Civil Commotions down to the Constitution of 311
- The Consular Military Tribunate
- The Censorship
- Civil Affairs from the Year 311 down to the last Veientine War
- On the Pay of the Troops
- The Wars down to the Last with Veii
- The last War with Veii
- The other Wars down to that with the Gauls
- Internal History down to the War with the Gauls
- Physical History from 305 to 365
- On the Gauls, and their Immigration into Italy
- The War with the Gauls, and the Taking of Rome
- On the Olympiad and Year of the Taking of Rome
- Rome after the Departure of the Gauls
- The Wars down to the Reform of 384
- Civil History down to the Year 374
- Appendix I On the Roman Mode of Partitioning Landed Property, and on the Limitatio
- Appendix II On the Agrimensores
Summary
The colonies with which the Romans strengthened their empire were not of a kind peculiar to them: we read of Alban, Volscian, Sabellian colonies; which, and even the Etruscan ones, there can be no doubt were of exactly the same nature. If our accounts were somewhat more copious, all these would range under one general head as Italian colonies. To avoid the appearance of an arbitrary assumption, I will speak only of the Roman, and of the contrast between them and the Greek.
The latter were in general newly built towns; or if the colonists settled in cities already founded, the old population was mostly exterminated: in the surrounding territory it survived, but in bondage; from which condition it generally rose in course of time to that of a commonalty. They were planted at a distance from the parent state, usually by persons who emigrated to escape from commotions and civil feuds, and not under the direction of the government at home: or if a colony went forth in peace and with the blessing of the parent state, and the latter retained honorary privileges, still the colony from the beginning was free and independent, even when founded to serve as a safe mart for commerce. The totally opposite character of the Roman colonies is described in a definition, which is certainly very ancient, and only needs some explanation and addition.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 42 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010