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INTRODUCTION.
Rome, but have left no vestige of separate political institutions.
The members of the three former communities enjoyed equal rights in the new state. The order of precedence was Tities, Ramnes, Luceres. The people of this greater Rome (populus Romanus Quiritium) distinguished themselves from the other Latins by their greater attention to trade and commerce. Because of their commercial and strategic advantages they became superior to the inhabitants of every other city in Latium. They seem at first to have developed independently of the Latin league, though they probably had the right of trade and intermarriage with the citizens of the federal communities.
