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In Gaul, the praetor, Marcus Furius, seeking a pretext for war in the midst of peace, deprived the unoffending Caenomanians of their arms.
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The Caenomanians complained of this to the senate at Rome, and were by them referred to the consul Aemilius, whom the senate authorized to examine into and determine the cause; after a warm contest with the praetor they gained their cause.
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The praetor was ordered to restore their arms to the Caenomanians, and quit the province. [p. 1794]The senate afterwards gave audience to envoys of the Latin confederation, who had come, in great numbers, from all parts of Latium.
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On their complaint that a great multitude of their citizens had been removed to Rome, and had been assessed there in the survey; a commission was given to Quintus Terentius Culleo, the praetor, to make inquiry after such persons;
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and on the allies proving that those persons themselves, or their fathers, had been assessed in the surveys of their states in the censorship of Caius Claudius and Marcus Livius, or at some time subsequent to their censorship, he was ordered to compel all such to return to the several states wherein they had been so rated.
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In consequence of this inquiry, twelve thousand Latins returned home; as the multitude of foreigners even then burdened the city.
Livy. History of Rome by Titus Livius, books thirty-seven to the end, with the epitomes and fragments of the lost books. literally translated, with notes and illustrations, by. William A. McDevitte. York Street, Covent Garden, London. Henry G. Bohn. John Child and son, printers, Bungay. 1850. 4.
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