municipium

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mūnĭcĭpĭum, ii, n. [municeps],

a town, particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship ( together with, in most cases, the right of voting ), but was governed by its own laws; a free town (cf. municeps; syn.: civitas, oppidum): Sex. Roscius, pecuniā sui municipii facile primus, Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 15: nullum erat Italiae municipium, id. Sest. 14, 32: e municipio antiquissimo Tusculano, id. Planc. 8, 19.—Sometimes for colonia: L. Castronius longe princeps municipii Lucensis, Cic. Fam. 13, 13 init.

Related Words