QwertyMIDX-
True, but my point was that it wasn't until 212 AD that all free inhabitants of the Empire were given citizenship, and that this was the culmination of a long process that included many intermediate steps such as the ius latii, but it wasn't until the lex julia of 90 BC and the lex plautia papiria of 89 that all of Italy south of the Po were conceded the full citizenship as a group. It was this conception of entitlement to participation in civic life that was one of the fundamental strengths of the Empire (in my very humble opinion)- but the important contrast that I am trying to make is that it sprang from a single source- that there were not equally competitors for citizenship in the Roman Empire- you were either a Roman or not, whereas in our 'Koinon Hellenon' there would have been at least three equal partners, each unwilling toyeild primacy. I don't think that it could have worked. That's all I meant.