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which were founded around Italy in the fourth and third centuries BC to strengthen Roman control, as Rome expanded its hegemony over the peninsula. They were colonies which were given Latin legal status, and their settlers the
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was wholly dependent on imperial gift. This beneficence could span the whole range from grants to individuals to awards made to whole towns, and could even be applied to an entire population, as when
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to the communities of
Transpadania, a region north of the Po, which had sided with Rome during the Social War. It also granted Roman citizenship to those who became officials in their respective
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Bowman, A. K., Garnsey, P., Rathbone, D., (Eds), The
Cambridge Ancient History Volume XI: The High Empire A.D. 70–192, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2000, 364–365;
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used this term in relation to Julius Caesar's grant of Latin rights to the
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in 171 BC and was the first Latin colony outside of Italy. In 122 BC, the plebeian tribune Gaius
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