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In Gaul the praetor Marcus Furius, seeking in peace the appearance of war, had disarmed the [p. 225]Cenomani,1 who had given no provocation:
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they in2 consequence laid a complaint about this before the senate at Rome, and were referred to the consul Aemilius, whom the senate had authorized to investigate and decide, and after engaging in great contention with the praetor won their case.
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The praetor was ordered to restore their arms to the Cenomani and to leave the province.
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Then ambassadors from the allies of the Latin confederacy, who had assembled from all Latium in great numbers from every side, were granted an audience by the senate. When they complained that a great number of their citizens had migrated to Rome and had been assessed there,3 Quintus Terentius Culleo the
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praetor was instructed to search them out, and, on receiving from the allies proof that any person or the father of such person4 had been assessed among the allies in the censorship of Gaius Claudius and Marcus Livius5 or after that censorship, to compel such persons to return to the places where they had been registered.
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As a consequence of this investigation twelve thousand of the Latins returned home, for even at that time a multitude of aliens was burdening the city.
1 The Cenomani had been quiet since their defeat by Cethegus in 197 B.C. (XXXIII. xxiii. 4).
2 B.C. 187
3 The allied cities and the Latin colonies, whose status was similar, were under obligations to Rome, in accordance with their several treaties and constitutions. The migration of their citizens to Rome increased the burden on those who remained at home; the status of the migrants is uncertain: they seem not to have acquired Roman citizenship and yet to have been assessed by the censors.
4 Since only heads of families were listed, the omission of this provision would have opened the door to persons who moved to Rome in the lifetimes of their fathers.
5 They were censors in 204 B.C. The date chosen was probably arbitrary and the result of compromise.
Livy. Books XXXVIII-XXXIX with an English Translation. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1936: published without copyright notice.
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