[The History of Rome, Book II by Theodor Mommsen]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Rome, Book II CHAPTER V 8/45
In this way the confederacy was constituted about 370 as follows.
Of old Latin townships there were--besides some which have now fallen into oblivion, or whose sites are unknown--still autonomous and entitled to vote, Nomentum, between the Tiber and the Anio; Tibur, Gabii, Scaptia, Labici,( 15) Pedum, and Praeneste, between the Anio and the Alban range; Corbio, Tusculum, Bovillae, Aricia, Corioli, and Lanuvium on the Alban range; Cora in the Volscian mountains, and lastly, Laurentum in the plain along the coast.
To these fell to be added the colonies instituted by Rome and the Latin league; Ardea in the former territory of the Rutuli, and Satricum, Velitrae, Norba, Signia, Setia and Circeii in that of the Volsci.
Besides, seventeen other townships, whose names are not known with certainty, had the privilege of participating in the Latin festival without the right of voting. On this footing--of forty-seven townships entitled to participate and thirty entitled to vote--the Latin confederacy continued henceforward unalterably fixed.
The Latin communities founded subsequently, such as Sutrium, Nepete,( 16) Antium, Tarracina,( 17) and Gales, were not admitted into the confederacy, nor were the Latin communities subsequently divested of their autonomy, such as Tusculum and Lanuvium, erased from the list. Fixing of the Limits of Latium With this closing of the confederacy was connected the geographical settlement of the limits of Latium.
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