@article{840231,
      recid = {840231},
      author = {Burton, Paul J.,},
      title = {Friendship and empire Roman diplomacy and imperialism in  the Middle Republic (353-146 BC) / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {xi, 395 p.},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"The nature of roman republican international relations  The history of Rome's interstate relations began, in Roman  national mythology, with a striking example of the  interplay between what can be loosely termed "domestic" and  "international" amicitia. According to Livy, when Aeneas  first arrived on Italian shores and entered the aboriginal  kingdom of Latinus, the two leaders immediately established  friendly relations. Latinus "by extending his right hand  [to Aeneas], sanctified the good faith of the friendship  that would be" (dextra data fidem futurae amicitiae  sanxisse)"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/840231},
}