The Non-Burgesses and the Reformed Constitution Amalgamation of the Palatine and Quirinal Cities The history of every nation, and of Italy more especially, is a -- synoikismos-- on a great scale.

Rome, in the earliest form in which we have any knowledge of it, was already triune, and similar incorporations only ceased when the spirit of Roman vigour had wholly died away.

Apart from that primitive process of amalgamation of the Ramnes, Titles, and Luceres, of which hardly anything beyond the bare fact is known, the earliest act of incorporation of this sort was that by which the Hill-burgesses became merged in the Palatine Rome.

The organization of the two communities, when they were about to be amalgamated, may be conceived to have been substantially similar; and in solving the problem of union they would have to choose between the alternatives of retaining duplicate institutions or of abolishing one set of these and extending the other to the whole united community.

They adopted the former course with respect to all sanctuaries and priesthoods.