Those who were SLAVES, who possessed no rights.
e.

Those who were RESIDENT FOREIGNERS, who possessed the right of trading.
To class _a_ belonged the citizens of Rome, of the Roman colonies, and of some of the Municipia.
To class _b_ belonged the citizens of most of the Municipia, who possessed only private rights, the citizens of all the _Praefecturae_, and the citizens of all the Latin colonies.
ROADS.
Even at this early date, the necessity of easy communication with the capital seems to have been well understood.

Roads were pushed in every direction,--broad, level ways, over which armies might be marched or intelligence quickly carried.

They were chains which bound her possessions indissolubly together.

Some of them remain today a monument of Roman thoroughness, enterprise, and sagacity,--the wonder and admiration of modern road-builders.