The Classical Quarterly

Table of Contents - 1937 - Volume 31, Issue 02  

Research Article

The Latin Colonies at Vitellia and Circeii

E. T. Salmona1

a1 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

In the fifth book of Livy there is a passage of which hitherto no good explanation has been forthcoming:

Romae interim multiplex seditio erat, cuius leniendae causa coloniam in Volscos, quo tria milia civium Romanorum scriberentur, deducendam censuerant; triumvirique ad id creati terna iugera et septunces viritim diviserant (Livy v, 24. 4: 395 B.C.). (Livy then goes on to describe the viritane division of the ager Veientanus.)