[135] “The plebeians complain loudly that their conquests have been taken from them; that it is disgraceful that, having conquered so many lands from the enemy, not the least portion of it remains to them; that the _ager publicus_ is possessed by rich and influential men who take the revenue unjustly, without other title than their power and unexampled acts of violence. They demand finally that, sharing with the patricians all the dangers, they may also have their share in the advantages and profit derived from them.” (Year of Rome 298.) (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, X. 36.) [136] “The moment would have been well chosen, after having taken vengeance on the seditious, to propose, in order to soothe people’s minds, the partition of the territory of the Bolani; they would thus have weakened the desire for an agrarian law which would expel the patricians from the public estates they had unjustly usurped. For it was an indignity which cut the people to the heart, this rage of the nobility to retain the public lands they occupied by force, and, above all, their refusal to distribute to the people even the vacant lands recently taken from the enemy, which, indeed, would soon become, like the rest, the prey of some of the nobles,” (Year of Rome 341.) (Titus Livius, IV. 51.) [137] Titus Livius, V. 30. [138] Titus Livius, VI. 21.--It appears that the Pontine Marshes were then very fertile, since Pliny relates, after Licinius Mucianus, that they included upwards of twenty-four flourishing towns. (_Natural History_, III. v. 56, edit. Sillig.) [139] Titus Livius, VI. 35-42.--Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 8. [140] See the remarkable work of M. A. Mace, _Sur les Lois Agraires_, Paris, 1846. [141] ROMAN COLONIES.--Second period: 244-416 _Lavici_ (Labicum) (336). Latium. (_Via Lavicana_.) _La Colonna._ _Vitellia_ (359). The Volscians. (_Via Prænestina_.) Uncertain. _Civitella_ or _Valmontone_. _Satricum_ (370). The Volscians. Banks of the Astura. _Casale di Conca_, between _Anzo_ and _Velletri_. LATIN COLONIES.--Second period: 244-416. _Antium_ (287). Volscians. _Torre d’Anzio_ or _Porto d’Anzio_. _Suessa Pometia_ (287). Near the Pontine Marshes. Disappeared at an early period. _Cora_. Volscians (287). _Cori_. _Signia_ (259). Volscians. _Segni_. _Velitræ_ (260). Volscians. _Velletri_. _Norba_ (262). Volscians. Near the modern village of _Norma_. _Ardea_ (312). Rutuli. _Ardea_. _Circeii_ (361). Aurunces. _Monte Circello_: _San Felice_ or _Porto di Paolo_. _Satricum_ (369). Volscians. _Casale di Conca_. _Sutrium_ (371). Etruria. (_Via Cassia_.) _Sutri_. _Setia_ (372) Volscians. _Sezze_. _Nepete_ (381). Etruria. _Nepi_.