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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUIRITES (literally " spearmen "; see
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QuIRINus)  , the earliest name of the burgesses of
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Rome . Combined in the phrase " populus
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Romanus
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Quirites (or Quiritium) " it denoted the individual
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citizen as contrasted with the community . Hence ius Quiritium in
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Roman
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law is full Roman citizenship . Subsequently the
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term lost the military associations due to the
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original conception of the
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people as a
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body of warriors, and was applied (sometimes in a deprecatory sense, cf . Tac .
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Ann. i . 42) to the
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Romans in domestic affairs, Romani being reserved for
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foreign affairs .

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