Civitas
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citizenship · Roman citizenship · civitas · patria · the Roman citizenship
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Formal legal status as a citizen of Rome, granted by imperial favor.
For my grandfather, together with my mother, obtained from the emperor of that time, who was his friend, at one and the same time the Roman citizenship and yours;
Institutes of Roman Law
Legal status of belonging to a civic community, acquired by birth, manumission, adoption, or election, and determining personal legal capacity.
(1) Obligation to bear certain burdensome municipal offices (munera);
not of the dependent states composing the organism of the Roman empire.
The principal effects of citizenship in a municipality were three-fold: