9/31 A few Italian oases were created by the establishment of _coloniae_ here and there in Asia Minor and in Syria. But all of them perished like exotic plants.[1] The Romanization of these lands was political. Their inhabitants ultimately learnt to call and to consider themselves Romans. But they did not adopt the Roman language or the Roman civilization. 147; Kubitschek, _Festheft Bormann_ (Wiener Studien, xx. |