[289] Ibid.; cf. Pais, Leg. of Rom. Hist. 140.
[290] Just as he supposed the Suburana to have been evolved, name and all, from the pagus Succusanus; L. L. v. 48; cf. Fest. 302. 15; ep. 115.
[291] Varro, De vit. pop. rom. i, in Non. Marc. 43: “Et extra urbem in regiones xxvi agros viritim liberis attribuit.” As this statement does not rest upon an independent source, but is merely an interpretation of Fabius and Cato, it has not the value which Huschke (Verf. d. Serv. 72 f., 85 f.), Mommsen (Röm. Staatsr. iii. 168 f.), and Meyer (in Hermes, xxx. 11) attach to it.
[292] Cf. Livy i. 43. 13; Fest. ep. 368.
[293] IV. 14.
[294] Dion. Hal. iv. 15.
[295] Dion. Hal. iv. 15. 4-6. His idea of a census of the country people he derived from Lucius Piso (§ 5 f.) and from the censors’ office through Fabius (22. 2)—a fact which militates against Mommsen’s theory that under Servius the country was not yet ager privatus.
[296] Livy vi. 5. 8.
[297] P. 56.
[298] Röm. Staatsr. iii. 162 ff.