Originally, it does not appear that the Romans ventured to leave their former inhabitants in the conquered towns. It is said that violence supplied Rome with women; the same proceeding furnished her with new citizens. The vanquished, when transferred to Rome, became Romans like their victors. The conquered town was occupied, either by soldiers, or by inhabitants of Rome, belonging to the lowest class of the people, and sent thither to form a kind of colony. The town of Cœre was the first which, on being united to Rome, was allowed to retain its own laws and magistrates after receiving, at least in part, the right of Roman citizenship. According to Livy, in the year of Rome 365, a decree of the Senate ordained _ut cum Cœretibus publice hospitium fieret_. Admission To Citizenship. This system prevailed and received continual development. The conquered towns were united to Rome by receiving the right of citizenship. Some of them, like Cœre, only received the title of Roman citizens for their inhabitants, and still retained their own Senate and laws; others were admitted into the Roman city, but without obtaining the right of suffrage in the _comitia_ of Rome. With regard to others, again, their political incorporation was complete; their inhabitants enjoyed the right of suffrage at Rome like the Romans themselves. These last alone had a tribe in Rome. The right of suffrage was granted successively to several towns which had not received it at first. Finally, all Italy after the war of the allies, and ere long a portion of Southern Gaul received the right of Roman citizenship in all its plenitude. {182} The towns thus admitted to all the rights of Roman citizenship were called _municipia_. When the whole of Italy was invested with these rights, those towns which had not at first fully possessed them retained for a considerable period the names of _coloniæ, prefectures_, and so forth, which they had originally borne; but, in fact, their condition was completely assimilated to that of the ancient _municipia_. Out of Italy, the condition of the conquered towns and districts was still very various. History tells us of _coloniæ_, some of which were Roman, and others Latin, of _populi liberi_, _civitates fæderatæ, reges amici, provinciæ_. These different denominations indicated different modes of existence under the domination of Rome, and different degrees of dependence --but these differences successively disappeared. I am referring merely to the _municipia_.