institution
Coloniae
the colonies
also: coloniae, the colonies
Roman and Latin colonial settlements throughout Italy; Cicero pairs them with the municipia and all Italy as constituencies whose ardor against Antony the talk of peace would weaken.
Reading notes
- For Publius Sulla §60 He divided them
The dispute concerned voting rights and public walks (ambulatio) between Pompeii's original inhabitants and the Sullan colonists planted there. Such old-settler/colonist tensions were a standard hazard of veteran colonisation.