[The History of Rome, Book II by Theodor Mommsen]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Rome, Book II CHAPTER V 21/45
To this footing of treaty there were admitted of the old-Latin places, besides Laurentum, also Tibur and Praeneste, which however were compelled to cede portions of their territory to Rome.
Like terms were obtained by the communities of Latin rights founded outside of Latium, so far as they had not taken part in the war.
The principle of isolating the communities from each other, which had already been established in regard to the places founded after 370,( 21) was thus extended to the whole Latin nation. In other respects the several places retained their former privileges and their autonomy.
The other old-Latin communities as well as the colonies that had revolted lost--all of them--independence and entered in one form or another into the Roman burgess-union.
The two important coast towns Antium (416) and Tarracina (425) were, after the model of Ostia, occupied with Roman full-burgesses and restricted to a communal independence confined within narrow limits, while the previous burgesses were deprived in great part of their landed property in favour of the Roman colonists and, so far as they retained it, likewise adopted into the full burgess-union.
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