[86] And now a multitude is sought out, by which those towns are to be peopled. For I have said before that leave is given by the law for them to occupy with their settlers whatever municipalities and whatever old colonies they choose. They will fill the municipality of
Cales
; they will overwhelm Teanum; they will extend a chain of garrisons through
Atella
, and
Cumae
, and
Naples
, and
Pompeii
, and Nuceria; and the whole of
Puteoli
, which is at present a free city, in the full enjoyment of its ancient rights and liberties, they will occupy with a new people, and with a foreign body of men.
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Then that standard of a Campanian colony, greatly to be dreaded by this empire, will be erected at Capua by the decemvirs. Then that other Rome , which has been heard of before, will be sought in opposition to this Rome , the common country of all of us.
Then that standard of a Campanian colony, greatly to be dreaded by this empire, will be erected at Capua by the decemvirs. Then that other Rome , which has been heard of before, will be sought in opposition to this Rome , the common country of all of us.
De Lege Agraria. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.
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