[History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD by Robert F. Pennell]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD CHAPTER IX 7/13
The remainder of the operations was rather a series of expeditions against individual cities than a general war. In 338 all the Latins laid down their arms, and the war closed.
The Latin confederacy was at an end.
Rome now was mistress.
Four of the Latin cities, TIBUR, PRAENESTE, CORA, and LAURENTUM, were left independent, but all the rest of the towns were annexed to Rome.
Their territory became part of the _Ager Romanus_, and the inhabitants Roman plebeians. Besides acquiring Latium, Rome also annexed, as _municipia_, three more towns, Fundi, Formiae, and Velitrae, a Volscian town. LATIUM was now made to include all the country from the Tiber to the Volturnus. Rome about this time established several MARITIME (Roman) COLONIES, which were similar to her MILITARY (Latin) COLONIES, except that the colonists retained all their rights as Roman citizens, whereas the military colonists relinquished these rights and became Latins.
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