A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . erty of the original inhabi-tants. We have already mentioned that during the fii^t Sam-nite war the internal peace of Rome had been disturbedby the severity of the law of debt. In the very yearbefore the termination of the Latin war, 339, thedictator, Puhliliuus Philo, carried three important laws, HISTORY OF ROSIE. 51 the first of which abolished the veto which the patriciancomitia ciiriata had possessed on all legal enactmentgpassed by the comitia centuriata; the second law gaveto the decrees of t
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . erty of the original inhabi-tants. We have already mentioned that during the fii^t Sam-nite war the internal peace of Rome had been disturbedby the severity of the law of debt. In the very yearbefore the termination of the Latin war, 339, thedictator, Puhliliuus Philo, carried three important laws, HISTORY OF ROSIE. 51 the first of which abolished the veto which the patriciancomitia ciiriata had possessed on all legal enactmentgpassed by the comitia centuriata; the second law gaveto the decrees of the comitia tributa the full power oflaws binding on the whole nation; and the third enactedthat one of the censors should always be a plebeian. Thelast patrician pri^dleges thus gradually disappeared oneafter another; and the Roman republic now consisted ofcitizens, all of whom possessed equal rights. The Latinsand the allies, as they were tenned, though in realitythey were subjects of Rome, had to provide the gi^eaterpart of the armies in the wars of the great city againsther THE CAPITOLINE TEMPLE.
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