[35] Richter, Top. d. Stadt Rom, 30 ff., still believes that the earliest settlement was on the Palatine. His view is controverted by Degering, H., in Berl. Philol. Woch. xxiii (1903). 1645 f., who prefers the Quirinal; cf. also Carter, J. B., in Am. Journ. of Archaeol. xii (1908). 172-83.
[36] Cf. Richter, ibid. 38; Meyer, E., in Hermes, xxx. 13.
[37] Cf. Nissen, Ital. Landesk. ii. 504.
[38] Cf. Varro, L. L. v. 55; Verrius Flaccus, in Gell. xviii. 7. 5. The idea of Isidorus, Etym. ix. 6. 7, is of course absurd.
[39] This subject will be considered in connection with the Servian tribes; p. 48 f.
[40] Dion. Hal. iv. 14. 2.
[41] P. 74.
[42] Like the Attic phylobasileis they continued through historical time to perform sacerdotal functions; Dion. Hal. ii. 64. 3; Fast. Praen. Mar. 19, in CIL. i². p. 234: “(Sali) faciunt in comitio saltu (adstantibus po)ntificibus et trib. celer;” Holzapfel, in Beitr. z. alt. Gesch. i. 242.
[43] Verg. Aen. v. 553 ff.; Serv. in Aen. v. 560; Holzapfel, ibid. 243.
[44] P. 2, n. 6.