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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 264 BC (348 words) |
 | In 312 BC censor Appius Claudius got the landless population distributed throughout the tribes, the sons of freedman admitted into the senate, the first aqueduct built to bring water nine miles from Gabii to the Circus Maximus, and the Appian Way paved for the 115 miles from Rome to Capua. |
| In 287 BC the problem of debt led to the appointment of Hortensius as dictator, and from then on plebiscites passed by the plebeian council had the force of law on everyone and did not have to be approved by the assembly, the classes of centuries, or the senate. |
| In 225 BC Celtic Gauls crossed the alps with an army of 150,000 infantry and 20,000 horse and chariots. |
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