Latins
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Tusculan Disputations (Latin) · Adversus Praxean (Latin)
When he could not be restored to his kingdom by the arms of the Veientes nor of the Latins, he is said to have betaken himself to Cumae, and in that city to have been worn out by age and distress.
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Institutes of Roman Law
Inhabitants of Latium and Latin colonies holding an intermediate legal status between citizens and peregrini.
The Latins possessed commercium and some of them conubium.
idem iuris est, si peregrino tamquam Latino ex lege Aelia Sentia nupta sit;
|—,| si ciues Romanas uxores duxerint, uel etiam Latinas peregrinasue cum quibus conubium habeant;
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Latin peoples named as the object of Rome's declaration-of-war formulas.
“Since the ancient people of the Latins have committed aggressions against the people of Rome, the people of Rome, with the advice and consent of the senate, declare war against them, and in the name of the senate and people of Rome their purpose is thus published.
the form of which may be seen in the first book of Livy, where it is said, “I declare war against the ancient nations of the Latins, and likewise against the respective individuals” and the same writer, in his thirty first book, informs us, that, upon the question being put to the people, they were asked, whether it was their pleasure that war should be declared against Philip, and against the Mac …
With respect to allies there is an example in the Roman treaty, in which the Latins are admitted to an equal share of the spoil, in those wars, which were carried on under the auspices of the Roman people.
On Moral Ends
The people against whom the ancestral Torquatus fought at the Veseris.
but I am wholly of this mind — that the Torquatus who first won this surname did not strip that torque from his enemy in order to derive from his body some bodily pleasure, nor fight against the Latins at the Veseris in his third consulship for the sake of pleasure;
Tusculan Disputations
Ancient Italic people whose forces also failed to restore Tarquin.
When he could not be restored to his kingdom by the arms of the Veientes nor of the Latins, he is said to have betaken himself to Cumae, and in that city to have been worn out by age and distress.
Adversus Praxean
Latin speakers noted for readily using the word monarchy.
And they articulate the very sound of it aloud, even the Latins, and so glibly that you would think they understood the monarchy as well as they pronounce it.
De Testimonio Animae
The Latin-speaking peoples, named as one linguistic group among whom the soul's testimony is not uniquely confined.
Not for the Latins, nor for the Argives alone, does the soul fall from heaven.