A dictionary of Greek and Roman . , and others bythe Julia lex. The nature of a Latin colony will appear suffi-ciently from what is said here, and in the articlesCivitas and Latinitas. Besides these coloniae, there were coloniae Italicijuris, as some writers term them ; but which in factwere not colonies. Sigonius, and most subsequentwriters, have considered the Jus Italicum as a per-sonal right, like the Civitas and Latinitas ; butSavigny has shown it to be quite a different jus Italicum was granted to favoured provincialcities ; it was a grant to the community, not to
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . , and others bythe Julia lex. The nature of a Latin colony will appear suffi-ciently from what is said here, and in the articlesCivitas and Latinitas. Besides these coloniae, there were coloniae Italicijuris, as some writers term them ; but which in factwere not colonies. Sigonius, and most subsequentwriters, have considered the Jus Italicum as a per-sonal right, like the Civitas and Latinitas ; butSavigny has shown it to be quite a different jus Italicum was granted to favoured provincialcities ; it was a grant to the community, not to theindividuals composing it. This right consisted inquiritarian ownership of the soil (commercium),and its appurtenant capacity of mancipatio, usu-capion, and vindicatio, together with freedom fromtaxes ; and also in a municipal constitution, afterthe fashion of the Italian towns, with duumviri,quinquennales, aediles, and a jurisdictio. Manyprovincial towns which possessed the jus Italicum,have on their coins the figure of a standing Silenus,. IMP. M. IVL. PHILIPP. A EL. MVNICIP. CO. Philip, a. d. 243—249. Coela or Coelos (Plin. iv. 11, 12) in the Thra-cian Chersonesus. with the hand raised, which was the peculiarsymbol of municipal libertv. {Obeundus Marsya,Horat. Sat. i. 6. 120.) Pliny (iii. 3 and 21) hasmentioned several towns that had the jus Italicum ;and Lugdunum, Vienna (in Dauphine), and coloniaAgrippinensis had this privilege. It follows fromthe nature of this privilege, that towns which hadthe Latinitas or the Civitas, which was a personalprivilege, might not have the jus Italicum ; but thetowns which had the jus Italicum could hardly beany other than those which had the civitas orLatinitas, and we cannot conceive that it was evergiven to a town of Peregrini. The colonial system of Rome, which originatedin the earliest ages, was well adapted to strengthenand extend her power —> By vhe colonies the COLONIA. 317 empire was consolidated, the decay of populationch
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