the expected modifications, there was issued in 659 a con sular law which most strictly prohibited the non-burgesses from laying claim to the
and threatened trans gressors with trial and punishment —a law which threw back a large number of most respectable persons who were deeply interested in the question of equalization from the ranks of Romans into those of Italians, and which in point of indisputable legality and of political folly stands com pletely on a parallel with that famous act which laid the
foundation for the separation of North America from the mother-country; in fact it became, just like that act, the
The Licinio- Mucian law.
foundation for the separation of North America from the mother-country; in fact it became, just like that act, the
The Licinio- Mucian law.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
