The plebs having thus resolved, the senate made the following orders:r first they restored their liberty and property to Op禅a and Cluvia;if they wished to ask the senate for a further reward, they tlley were to come to Rome. Separate decrees were made in the case of each of the Capuan families; it is not worth while giving a·complete enumeration. Some were to have their UrOAerty confiscated. they themselves with their wives and children were to be sold, with the exception of those of their dau ghters who had married outside the territory before they passed under the power of Rome. Others were to be thrown into chains, and their fate settled afterwards. In the case of the rest, theuestion whether their be confiscated or not depended upon the amount at which they were assessed. Where property was restored it was to include all the captured live stock except the horses, all the slaves except the adult males, and everything which was not attached to the sni 1_
It was further decreed that the populations of CaDua.Atella,
三J‘二,产 Calatia and the valley of the Sabatus should all retain their liberty, except those who themselves, or whose parents had been with the enemy, but none of them could become a Roman
who citizen or a member of the Latin League. None of thosehad been in Capua during the siege could remain in theor its neighbourhood beyond a certain date; a place ofdeuce was assigned to them beyond the Tiber at some dist city
resi-
ance from it. Those who had not been in Capua durinz the war.
,.,八…‘.,_W…, nor in any revoitea },ampanian city, were to be settled to the north of the Liris in the direction of Rome;those who had gone over to the side of Rome before Hannibal came to Capuawere to be removed to this side of the Volturnus, and no one was to possess any land or building within fifteen miles of the sea. Those who had been deported beyond the Tiber were forbidden to acquire or to hold either for themselves or their posterity landed property anywhere except in the territories Veii, Sutrium and.Nepete, and in no case was such holdi ng oftoall exceed·fifty jugera. The property of all the senators and of who had held any magistracy in Capua, Atella and Calatia was ordered to be sold in Capua, and those persons whom it had been decided to sell into slavery were sent to Rome and sold there?0 The disposal of the images and bronze statues which were alleged to have been taken from the enemy, and the question which of them were sacred and which profane.were ref 1erred to the Pontifical College._
Alter hearing these decrees, the Uapuans were dismissed in a much more sorrowful state mind than that in which they had come. It was no longer .Fulvius' cruelty to them, but the injustice of the gods a: their accursed fate that they 」二一.。,.。。J2l 二睁口,,.1.,月…,二二
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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