... In the Punic wars the time had come when the same reform ought to have taken place with regard to the allies which more than a hundred years before had admitted the most eminent plebeian families to the nobility.  During the Hannibalic war, when the Romans had learnt to value the importance of the Italian allies, the proposal was made by Spurius Carvilius, a farsighted statesman, and a moderate reformer like C. Flaminius, to receive into the senate two representatives from every Latin colony... (The History of Rome, Ihne, v.4, 1882)