Editing Foederati (section)

==Roman Republic==
In the early [[Roman Republic]], ''foederati'' were tribes that were bound by a [[treaty]] ('''''foedus''''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|iː|d|ə|s}}) to come to the defence of Rome but were neither [[colonies in antiquity|Roman colonies]] nor beneficiaries of [[Roman citizenship]] (''civitas''). Members of the [[Latium|Latini]] tribe were considered blood allies, but the rest were federates or ''[[socii]]''. The friction between the treaty obligations without the corresponding benefits of Romanity led to the [[Social War (91–88 BC)|Social War]] between the Romans, with a few close allies, and the disaffected ''socii''. A [[law]] of 90 BC (''Lex Julia'') offered Roman citizenship to the federate states that accepted the terms. Not all cities were prepared to be absorbed into the Roman ''[[res publica]]'' ([[Heraclea (Lucania)|Heraclea]] and [[Naples]]). Other ''foederati'' lay outside [[Roman Italy]] such as [[Cádiz|Gades]] (Cádiz) and [[Marseille|Massilia]] (Marseille).{{Clarify|So not offered the settlement, or just turned it down?|date=March 2008}}