Capitolo 8
then a Greek idiom or construction.
The Romans, as it is known well two agencies used with the great effect in,
Their Romanizing of recent acquired territory, viz., colonies and roads. The
policy to send farmers hold the new districts was definitely
it entered above the first part of the fourth century, when city they were
expeditious to Antium, Tarracina and the other points in Latium. Among this century
fifteen or winds colonies were established to the various points in central
Italy. The strategic considerations determined their location and the choice
you/he/she was done with great wisdom. Sutrium and Nepete, on the confinements of the
Ciminian forests, it was "the gates of Etruria"; Fregellae and Interamna
commanded the passage of the river Liris; Tarentum and Rhegium were
important harbors of entrance, while Dawn Fucens and Carsioli protected the line
of the road of Valerian.
This road and the other great public road that were built in Italy
not only brought all the colonies but all the parts of the peninsula, in
easy communication with the capital. The first of them was built
Capua, as we know, from the great censor Appius Claudius, in the 312 A.C., and
when one looks first to a map of Italy to the closing of the third century
ours was, and he/she sees the central ones and you depart southern of the peninsula punctuated
with colonies, the Way of Appian that races from Rome southeast to Brundisium,
the Way of Popillian to Rhegium, the Way of north-east Flaminian to Ariminum,
with a delay to Cremona, with the Cassians and the ways of Aurelian along the
it costs western, the rapidity and the completeness with which the Latin
language covers Italy it stops being a mystery. A map of Spain or of
France under the empire, with his/her net of roads it is equally
illuminating.
The missionaries that brought Roman law, dressed Roman, Roman ideas and the
First Latin language through central, southern, and northern Italy, and
then to the east and the west, it was the farmer, the dealer the
makes the soldier and the federal officer. The central government exempted the