"as the states
were differently circumstanced, that their plan might be readily
adjusted so that it might be determined according to the desert of each,
if they should put the question regarding each state specifically." The
question was therefore so put regarding each separately and a decree
past. 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. A new colony was also
sent to Antium, with this provision, that if the Antians desired to be
enrolled as colonists, permission to that effect should be granted.
Their ships of war were removed from thence, and the people of Antium
were interdicted the sea, and the rights of citizenship were granted
them. The Tiburtians and Praenestines were amerced in some land, not only
on account of the recent guilt of the rebellion, which was common to
them with the other Latins; but also because, from their dislike to the
Roman government, they had formerly associated in arms with the Gauls, a
nation of savages. From the other Latin states they took away the
privileges of intermarriage, commerce, and of holding meetings. To the
Campanians, in compliment to their horsemen, because they had refused to
join in rebellion with the Latins, and to the Fundans and Formians,
because the passage through their territories had been always secure and
peaceful, the freedom
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