The Colonists of the Roman East and their Leading Groups: Some Notes on their Entering the Equestrian and Senatorial Ranks in Comparison with the Native Elites

Abstract

... haud facile libertas et domini miscentur, "Liberty and masters are not easily combined
together ... " These were the words of the German tribe of the Tencteri, addressing
their fellow-countrymen, the Ubii, who had already settled in Colonia Agrippina
(Cologne, Germany) jointly with Roman veterans; they even positively encouraged
them to kill the Roman settlers, since they looked upon muri coloniae ("walls of
colony") as munimenta servitii ("bulwarks of slavery").