[159] If a citizen refused to give his name for the recruitment, his goods were confiscated; if he did not pay his creditors, he was sold for a slave. Women were forbidden the use of wine. (Polybius, VI. 2.)--The number of guests who could be admitted to feasts was limited. (Athenæus, VI. p. 274.)--The magistrates also, on entering on office, could not accept invitations to dinner, except from certain persons who were named. (Aulus Gellius, II. 24.--Macrobius, II. 13.)--“Marriage with a plebeian or a stranger was surrounded with restrictive measures; it was forbidden with a slave or with a freedman. Celibacy, at a certain age, was punished with a fine.” (Valerius Maximus, II. ix. 1.)--There were regulations also for mourning and funerals. (Cicero, _De Legibus_, II. 24.) [160] Aulus Gellius, IV. 12. [161] Plutarch, _Cato the Censor_, 23. [162] Historians have always assigned as the northern frontier of Italy, under the Republic, the River Macra, in Etruria; but that the limit was farther south is proved by the fact that Cæsar went to Lucca to take his winter quarters; this town, therefore, must have been in his command and made part of Cisalpine Gaul. Under Augustus, the northern frontier of Italy extended to the Macra. [163] Speech of Cæsar to the Senate, reported by Sallust. (_Conspiracy of Catilina_, li.) [164] This paragraph, expressing with great clearness the policy of the Roman Senate, is extracted from the excellent _Hist. Romaine_ of M. Duruy, t. I., c. xi. [165] As, for example, to put the wife in complete obedience to her husband; to give the father absolute authority over his children, etc. [166] In the origin, the municipia were the allied towns preserving their autonomy, but engaging to render to Rome certain services (_munus_); whence the name of municipia. (_Aulus Gellius_, XVI. 13.) [167] To be able to enjoy the right of city, it was necessary to be domiciliated at Rome, to have left a son in his majority in the municipium, or to have exercised there a magistracy. [168] Aul. Gellius, XVI. xiii.--Paulus Diaconus, on the word _Municipium_, p. 127. [169] In this category were sometimes found municipia of the third degree, such as Cære. (See Festus, under the word _Præfecturæ_, p. 233.)--Several of these towns, such as Fundi, Formiæ, and Arpinum, obtained in the sequel the right of suffrage; they continued, however, by an ancient usage, to be called by the name of _præfecturæ_, which was also applied by abuse to the colonies. [170] _Socius et amicus_ (Titus Livius, XXXI. 11).--Compare Dionysius of Halicarnassus, VI. 95; X. 21. [171] With Carthage, for example. (Polybius, III. 22.--Titus Livius, VII. 27; IX. 19, 43.) [172] Thus with the Latins. “Ut eosdem quos populus Romanus amicos atque hostes habeant.” (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 8.) [173] Cicero, _Oration for Balbus_, xvi.