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During the civilwars of Sulla, of Caesar and of Octavian, huge armies were broughtinto the field by the rival military chiefs. As each conflict ended, huge masses of soldiery had to be discharged almost at once. For thesake of future peace it was imperative that these men should bequickly settled in some form of civic life in which they would abide. The form chosen was the familiar form of the 'colonia'. Thetime-expired soldiers were treated--not altogether unreasonably--assurplus population, a...nd they were planted out in large bodies, sometimes in existing towns which needed population or at least aloyal population, sometimes in new towns established full-grown forthe purpose. This method of dealing with discharged soldiers wascontinued during the early Empire, though it was then employedsomewhat intermittently and the 'coloniae' were oftener planted in theprovinces than in Italy itself; indeed the establishment of Italian'coloniae', as distinct from grants of colonial rank by way of honour, almost ceased after A.
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