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BOOK VIII
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To the Lanuvians the right of citizenship was granted, and the exercise of their religious rights was restored to them with this provision, that the temple and grove of Juno Sospita should be common between the Lanuvian burghers and the Roman people.

The Aricians, Nomentans, and Pedans were admitted into the number of citizens on the same terms as the Lanuvians.

To the Tusculans the rights of citizenship which they already possessed were continued; and the crime of rebellion was turned from disaffection on public grounds against a few instigators.

On the Veliternians, Roman citizens of long standing, measures of great severity were inflicted because they had so often rebelled; their walls were razed, and their senate removed from thence, and they were ordered to dwell on the other side of the Tiber, so that the fine of any individual who should be caught on the hither side of that river should amount to one thousand _asses_; and that the person who had apprehended him, should not discharge his prisoner from confinement, until the money was paid down.

Into the land of the senators colonists were sent; from the additions of which Velitrae recovered its appearance of former populousness.


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