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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 160 (search)
The men of Tauromenium which is a city in alliance
The foederatae civitates were
those states which were connected with Rome by a treaty, foedus. The name did
not include Roman colonies, or Latin colonies, or any place which had obtained the
Roman civitas. They were independent states, yet
under a general liability to furnish a contingent for the Roman army; they were
nearly all confined within the limits of Italy, though Gades,
Saguntum and Massilia were exceptions, as well as Tauromenium. Vide Smith, Dict. Ant. p.
427. with us, most quiet men, who were formerly as far removed as possible
from the injuries of our magistrates, owing to the protection the treaty was to
them; yet even they did not hesitate to overturn that man's statue. But when that
was removed, they allowed the pedestal to re
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 49 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 50 (search)
What, if I prove, O judges, that
these two treaties with the two states were of such a nature, that in the case of
the people of Tauromenium it was
expressly provided for and guarded against in the treaty, “that they were
not bound to furnish a vessel;” but that in the case of the Mamertines it
was set down and written in the treaty itself, “that they were bound to
furnish a vessel;” but that Verres, in opposition to both treaties,
compelled the Tauromenians to furnish one, and excused the Mamertines? Can it, then,
be doubtful to any one that, while Verres was praetor, that merchant-vessel was a
greater assistance to the Mamertines than the treaty was to the Tauromenians? Let
the treaties be read. [The treaties of the Mamertines and the Tauromenians with the
Roman people are
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 165 (search)