Section 7
Original Latin
data est civitas Silvani lege et Carbonis: “si qui foederatis civitatibus ascripti fuissent, si tum cum lex ferebatur in Italia domicilium habuissent et si sexaginta diebus apud praetorem essent professi.” Cum hic domicilium Romae multos iam annos haberet, professus est apud praetorem
Musean translation
Complete machine-assisted Musean translation made directly from the Latin in Clark’s 1911 edition; source-language model review recorded. Perseus transcription: CC BY-SA 4.0, credited to the Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Citizenship was granted under the law of Silvanus and Carbo “to anyone who had been enrolled in an allied community, provided that he had a home in Italy when the law was proposed and registered before a praetor within sixty days.” Since he had already made his home at Rome for many years, he registered before the praetor
Plain English translation
Complete machine-assisted Plain English translation made independently and directly from the Latin, not from the Musean edition; source-language model review recorded. Perseus transcription: CC BY-SA 4.0, credited to the Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Silvanus and Carbo’s law granted citizenship “if people had been enrolled as citizens of allied communities, if they had a home in Italy when the law was being proposed, and if they registered with a praetor within sixty days.” Since this man had already had his home in Rome for many years, he registered with the praetor
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