Rome extended herself by her colonies into every part of her empire, and was everywhere present.

I speak here only of the military colonies, because no other, I imagine, were ever settled in Britain.
There were few countries of any considerable extent in which all these different modes of government and different shades and gradations of servitude did not exist together.

There were allies, _municipia_, provinces, and colonies in this island, as elsewhere; and those dissimilar parts, far from being discordant, united to make a firm and compact body, the motion of any member of which could only serve to confirm and establish the whole; and when time was given to this structure to coalesce and settle, it was found impossible to break any part of it from the Empire.
By degrees the several parts blended and softened into one another.

And as the remembrance of enmity, on the one hand, wore away by time, so, on the other, the privileges of the Roman citizens at length became less valuable.

When, nothing throughout so vast an extent of the globe was of consideration but a single man, there was no reason to make any distinction amongst his subjects.