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Title: A Study Of The Topography And Municipal History Of Praeneste

Author: Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

Release Date: June 29, 2004 [EBook #12770]

Language: English

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SERIES XXVI NOS. 9-10

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy,
and Political Science

STUDY OF THE TOPOGRAPHY AND MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF PRAENESTE

BY RALPH VAN DEMAN MAGOFFIN, A.B. Fellow in Latin.

September, October, 1908

COPYRIGHT 1908

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE TOPOGRAPHY OF PRAENESTE
EXTENT OF THE DOMAIN OF PRAENESTE
THE CITY, ITS WALLS AND GATES
THE PORTA TRIUMPHALIS
THE GATES
THE WATER SUPPLY OF PRAENESTE
THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA
THE EPIGRAPHICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF PRAENESTE
THE FORA
THE SACRA VIA

CHAPTER II. THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF PRAENESTE
WAS PRAENESTE A MUNICIPIUM?
PRAENESTE AS A COLONY
THE DISTRIBUTION OF OFFICES
THE REGULATIONS ABOUT OFFICIALS
THE QUINQUENNALES

AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF PRAENESTE

A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF PRAENESTE
1. BEFORE PRAENESTE WAS A COLONY
2. AFTER PRAENESTE WAS A COLONY

PREFACE.

This study is the first of a series of studies already in progress, in
which the author hopes to make some contributions to the history of the
towns of the early Latin League, from the topographical and epigraphical
points of view.

The author takes this opportunity to thank Dr. Kirby Flower Smith, Head
of the Department of Latin, at whose suggestion this study was begun,
and under whose supervision and with whose hearty assistance its
revision was completed.

He owes his warmest thanks also to Dr. Harry Langford Wilson, Professor
of Roman Archaeology and Epigraphy, with whom he made many trips to
Praeneste, and whose help a