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Though the , which descends from above Subiaco to Tivoli , where it enters the plain of the Campagna ; (2) that of the Trerus ( Sacco ), which has its source below Palestrina ( Praeneste ), and flows through a comparatively broad valley that separates the main mass of the Apennines from the Volscian mountains or Monti Lepini , till it joins the Liris below Ceprano ; (3) that of the Uris ( Garigliano ), which enters the confines of New Latium about 20 m. from its source, flows past the town of Sora , and has a very tortuous course from thenre to the sea at Minturnae; its lower valley is for the most part of considerable width, and forms a fertile tract of considerable extent, bordered on both sides by hills covered with vines, olives and fruit trees, and thickly studded with towns and villages. It may be observed that, long after the Latins had ceased to exist as a separate people we meet in Roman writers with the phrase of ''nomen Latinum'', used not in an ethnic but a purely political sense, to designate the inhabitants of all those cities on which the Romans had conferred Latin rights (''jus Latinum''), an inferior form of the Roman Franchise , which had been granted in the first instance to certain cities of the Latins, when they became subjects of Rome, and was afterwards bestowed upon many other cities of Italy, especially the so-called Latin colonies. At a later period the same privileges were extended to places in other countries also as for instance to most of the cities in Sicily and Spain . All persons enoying these rights were termed in legal phraseology ''Latini'' or ''Latinae conditionis''. |
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