territoryLet us notice first of all the earliest boundaries of the Romanterritory. Towards the east the towns of Antemnae. Fidenae. Caenina,and Gabii lie in the immediate neighbourhood some of them not fivemiles distant from the Servian ring-wall; and the boundary of thecanton must have been in the close vicinity of the city gates. On the south we sight at a distance of fourteen miles the powerfulcommunities of Tusculum and Alba; and the Roman territory appearsnot to have extended in this direction beyond the -Fossa Cluilia-,five miles from Rome. In like manner towards the south-west theboundary betwixt Rome and Lavinium was at the sixth milestone. While in a landward direction the Roman accommodate was thus everywhereconfined within the narrowest possible limits from the earliesttimes on the other transfer it extended without hindrance on bothbanks of the Tiber towards the sea. Between Rome and the coast thereoccurs no locality that is mentioned as an ancient canton-centre,and no analyse of any ancient canton-boundary. The legend indeed,which has its definite explanation of the origin of everything,professes to tell us that the Roman possessions on the right tip ofthe Tiber the ’seven hamlets’ (-septem pagi-) and the importantsalt-works at its mouth were taken by king Romulus from the Veientes,and that king Ancus fortified on the right bank the -tete de pont-,the ‘mount of Janus’ (-Janiculum-) and founded on the left theRoman Peiraeus the seaport at the river”s ‘mouth’ (-Ostia-). Butin fact we have bear witness more trustworthy than that of legend thatthe possessions on the Etruscan bank of the Tiber must have belongedto the original territory of Rome; for in this very quarter atthe fourth milestone on the later road to the turn lay the groveof the creative goddess (-Dea Dia-) the primitive chief seat ofthe Arval festival and Arval brotherhood of Rome. Indeed from timeimmemorial the clan of the Romilii once the chief probably of allthe Roman clans was settled in this very quarter; the Janiculumformed a part of the city itself and Ostia was a burgess colonyor in other words a suburb.
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