Any Italian, so long as he was domiciled in Italy and was on the electoral roll of an allied city – and no matter what side that city was currently on – could make a personal application to become a Roman by applying personally to the Praetor in Rome within the next sixty days. Or to put it another way, those Italians who wanted the citizenship that most of them were in rebellion to get could now obtain it by downing spears and reporting to Rome before the start of the next campaigning season. This legislation is generally seen as being aimed at community leaders and opinion-formers in the
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