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The History of Rome. Book IIIIn this respect, as in so many other external points, there exists the most remarkable analogy between Plautus and Shakespeare. 33. III. III. The Celts Conquered by Rome, III. VII. Measures Adopted to Check the Immigration of the Trans-Alpine Gauls. 34. III. XIV. Roman Barbarism. 35. Togatus denotes, in juristic and generally in technical language, the Italian in contradistinction not merely to the foreigner, but also to the Roman burgess. Thus especially formula togatorum (Corp. Inscr. Lat., I. n. 200, v. 21, 50) is the list of those Italians bound to render military serviee, who do not serve in the legions. The designation also of Cisalpine Gaul as Gallia togata, which first occurs in Hirtius and not long after disappears again from the ordinary usus loquendi, describes this region presumably according to its legal position, in so far as in the epoch from 665 to 705 the great majority of its communities possessed Latin rights. Virgil appears likewise in the gens togata, which he mentions along with the Romans (Aen. i. 282), to have thought of the Latin nation ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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