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

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