1. Summarize the primary source document by giving a few sentences saying what it is and where it came from, and then writing a paragraph or two that describes what is says. 2. Analyze the source by stating your own informed opinion, about what the source means in its context and you should talk about each source in the context of the history we are studying— that it, in its own time and place—rather than comparing it to modern events, people, or institutions.
1. Summarize the primary source document by giving a few sentences saying what it is and where it came from, and then writing a paragraph or two that describes what is says. 2. Analyze the source by stating your own informed opinion, about what the source means in its context and you should talk about each source in the context of the history we are studying— that it, in its own time and place—rather than comparing it to modern events, people, or institutions.
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1. Summarize the primary source document by giving a few sentences saying what it is and where it came from, and then writing a paragraph or two that describes what is says.
2. Analyze the source by stating your own informed opinion, about what the source means in its context and you should talk about each source in the context of the history we are studying—
that it, in its own time and place—rather than comparing it to modern events, people, or
institutions.
![(27) They are even banned from the city of Rome or anywhere within the hundredth milestone from
Rome, and any who break this law have to be sold publicly together with their property, subject to the
condition that they must never serve as slaves in the city of Rome or within a hundred miles of Rome, and
that they must never be manumitted; if they are manumitted, the law stipulates that they become slaves of
the Roman People. All these provisions are laid down by the Lex Aelia Sentia.
(28) But there are many ways in which Latins can become Roman citizens.
(29) First of all, there are the regulations laid down by the Lex Aelia Sentia. Anyone under thirty who has
been manumitted and has become a Latin; if he marries a wife who is either a Roman citizen or a colonial
Latin or a woman of the same status as himself, and this marriage was witnessed by not less than seven
adult Roman citizens, and he has a son; then, when that son becomes one year old, he has the right under
this law to go to the Praetor (or in a province the governor) and prove that he has married in accordance
with the Lex Aelia Sentia and has a year-old son.
And if the magistrate to whom the case is taken declares that the facts are as stated, then both the Latin
himself and his wife (if she is of the same status) and son (if he is of the same status too) must be
recognized as Roman citizens.
(30) (I added the phrase "if he is of the same status, too" with respect to the son because if the wife of a
Latin is a Roman citizen, then her son is born as a Roman citizen, in accordance with a recent Senate
Recommendation proposed by the Divine Emperor Hadrian.)
(31) Although the Lex Aelia Sentia only gives this right to acquire Roman citizenship to those who were
less than thirty years old on manumission and thus became Latins, this was later extended to persons who
were over thirty on manumission and became Latins, by a Senate Recommendation passed in the
consulship of Pegasus and Pusio [early in the reign of Vespasian].
(32) But even if the Latin dies before he has been able to establish that he has a year-old son, the mother
can prove it, and if she was previously a Latin she will thus become a Roman citizen herself. Even if the
son is a Roman citizen already, because he is the child of a mother who is a Roman citizen, she still ought
to prove his case; for then he can become the natural heir (suus heres) of his father.
(32a) What was said regarding a year-old son applies equally to a year-old daughter.
(32b) Furthermore, under the Lex Visellia, anyone who has become a Latin through manumission,
whether he is over or under thirty, acquires the full rights of a Roman citizen if he has completed six years
of service in the vigiles (police) at Rome. It is asserted that a Senate Recommendation was later passed of
granting citizenship on completion of three years' service.
(32c) By an edict of Claudius, Latins also obtain full citizen rights if they have built a sea-going ship with
a capacity of not less than 10,000 modii of corn, and that ship, or its replacement, has been used to bring
corn to Rome over a period of six years.
(33) Furthermore, it was enacted by Nero that a Latin who owned property worth 200,000 sesterces or
more and built a house in the city of Rome on which he spent not less than half his property, could obtain
full citizen rights.
(34) Finally, Trajan enacted that if a Latin kept a mill going in the city over a period of three years,
grinding not less than 100 modii of corn daily, he could acquire full citizen rights.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fc45dfd55-2702-405b-9288-88cd78d06c07%2Fafa8b818-4a92-4b86-a508-11da7a0326c8%2Fqhuld2_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:(27) They are even banned from the city of Rome or anywhere within the hundredth milestone from
Rome, and any who break this law have to be sold publicly together with their property, subject to the
condition that they must never serve as slaves in the city of Rome or within a hundred miles of Rome, and
that they must never be manumitted; if they are manumitted, the law stipulates that they become slaves of
the Roman People. All these provisions are laid down by the Lex Aelia Sentia.
(28) But there are many ways in which Latins can become Roman citizens.
(29) First of all, there are the regulations laid down by the Lex Aelia Sentia. Anyone under thirty who has
been manumitted and has become a Latin; if he marries a wife who is either a Roman citizen or a colonial
Latin or a woman of the same status as himself, and this marriage was witnessed by not less than seven
adult Roman citizens, and he has a son; then, when that son becomes one year old, he has the right under
this law to go to the Praetor (or in a province the governor) and prove that he has married in accordance
with the Lex Aelia Sentia and has a year-old son.
And if the magistrate to whom the case is taken declares that the facts are as stated, then both the Latin
himself and his wife (if she is of the same status) and son (if he is of the same status too) must be
recognized as Roman citizens.
(30) (I added the phrase "if he is of the same status, too" with respect to the son because if the wife of a
Latin is a Roman citizen, then her son is born as a Roman citizen, in accordance with a recent Senate
Recommendation proposed by the Divine Emperor Hadrian.)
(31) Although the Lex Aelia Sentia only gives this right to acquire Roman citizenship to those who were
less than thirty years old on manumission and thus became Latins, this was later extended to persons who
were over thirty on manumission and became Latins, by a Senate Recommendation passed in the
consulship of Pegasus and Pusio [early in the reign of Vespasian].
(32) But even if the Latin dies before he has been able to establish that he has a year-old son, the mother
can prove it, and if she was previously a Latin she will thus become a Roman citizen herself. Even if the
son is a Roman citizen already, because he is the child of a mother who is a Roman citizen, she still ought
to prove his case; for then he can become the natural heir (suus heres) of his father.
(32a) What was said regarding a year-old son applies equally to a year-old daughter.
(32b) Furthermore, under the Lex Visellia, anyone who has become a Latin through manumission,
whether he is over or under thirty, acquires the full rights of a Roman citizen if he has completed six years
of service in the vigiles (police) at Rome. It is asserted that a Senate Recommendation was later passed of
granting citizenship on completion of three years' service.
(32c) By an edict of Claudius, Latins also obtain full citizen rights if they have built a sea-going ship with
a capacity of not less than 10,000 modii of corn, and that ship, or its replacement, has been used to bring
corn to Rome over a period of six years.
(33) Furthermore, it was enacted by Nero that a Latin who owned property worth 200,000 sesterces or
more and built a house in the city of Rome on which he spent not less than half his property, could obtain
full citizen rights.
(34) Finally, Trajan enacted that if a Latin kept a mill going in the city over a period of three years,
grinding not less than 100 modii of corn daily, he could acquire full citizen rights.
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