The plebs saw clearly that by being more independent they were not happier; that they did not form a more regular society than at Rome; and that the problem, whose solution was so important to them, was not solved.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (1877)

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