Lex Papiria Plautia
Lex Papiria Plautia B.C. 89, enacted that all cives and incolae of foederatae civitates, who at the date of the statute were domiciled in Italy, should be able to obtain the Roman civitas by giving in their names to the praetor urbanus at Rome within sixty days (Cic. pro Archia, 4, 7; ad Fam. 13.30). [CIVITAS; FOEDERATAE CIVITATES.].
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.