All we know of their subsequent political condition is that after the Social war the folk of Cliternia and Nersae appear united in a res Publica Aequiculorum, which was a municipium of the ordinary type (C.
Its inhabitants had certainly acquired Roman citizenship before the Social War and it continued to be a municipium throughout the Roman period.
Especially for difference in meaning of municipium from Roman and municipal point of view, see Marquardt, Staatsverw.
Oppius Capito was not only quinquennalis twice at Auximum, patron of that and another colony, but he was patron of the municipium of Numana, and also quinquennalis.
Now the property in a municipium is not considered as Roman, a result of the old sovereign state idea, as given by the ius Quiritium and ius Gabinorum, although Mommsen says this had no real practical value.
It is enough to say here that Tusculum was estranged from the Latin League because she was made a municipium (Livy VI, 25-26), and how much less likely that Praeneste would ever have taken such a status.
Iulia Praeneste became a municipium of the type which kept its own citizenship (ut municipes essent suae cuiusque civitatis).
Praeneste would never have asked for a return to the name municipium if it had not meant something.
There seems to be, however, very good reasons for saying that Praeneste never became a municipiumin the strict legal sense of the word.
What they did ask for was the name municipium as they used and understood it, for it meant to them everything or anything but colonia.
The question whether or not Praeneste was ever a municipium in the technical and constitutional sense of the word is apart from the present discussion, and will be taken up later.
At the very best she could not have been a real municipium with Roman citizenship longer than seven years, 89 to 82 B.
At the end of the ridge are remains of the Roman Municipium and Temple of Juno of the time of Hadrian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "municipium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
