Paulus Diaconus / Festus, De verborum significatione, 155 Lindsay

 

Editor: F.Russo

Text:

Municipium id genus hominum dicitur, qui cum Romam venissent, neque cives Romani essent, participes tamen fuerunt omnium rerum ad munus fungendum una cum Romanis civibus, praeterquam de suffragio ferendo, aut magistratu capiendo; sicut fuerunt Fundani, Formiani, Cumani, Acerrani, Lanuvini, Tusculani, qui post aliquot annos cives Romani effecti sunt. Alio modo, cum id genus hominum definitur, quorum civitas universa in civitatem Romanam venit, ut Aricini, Caerites, Anagnini. Tertio, cum id genus hominum definitur, qui ad civitatem Romanam ita venerunt, uti municipia essent sua cuiusque civitatis et coloniae, ut Tiburtes, Praenestini, Pisani, Urbinates, Nolani, Bononiensis, Placentini, Nepesini, Sutrini, Luc[r]enses.

Edition: Lindsay 1913

Translation: Municipium. This term is used to define the kind of people that take part, along with Roman citizens, in procedures for electing magistrates, after they arrived in Rome, although they are not Roman citizens and do not have the right of voting and being appointed magistracies, such as the inhabitants of Fundi, Formia, Cuma, Acerra, Lanuvium and Tusculum. All these were granted roman citizenship after some years. This word has another meaning, which indicates those whose city has been admitted in the Roman citizenship, such as the inhabitants of Aricia, Caere and Anagni. There is a third acceptation of the term, which designates those who have been accepted in the Roman citizenship, so that their cities and colonies are municipia; this is the case of the inhabitants of Tibur, Praeneste, Pisa, Urbinum, Nola, Bononia, Placentia, Nepi, Sutrium and Luca. (F.Russo)

Dating: Augustan age (cf. Verrius Flaccus, source of the lemma)

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