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sea or to take refuge in Stabiae. Flight in either case was cut
off. If ships were in the harbor, they must soon have been
filled with the volcanic deposits; if there was a bridge across
the river it was probably thrown down by the earthquake.
A second suburb sprang up near the sea, in connection with
the salt works (salinae) of the city. Our knowledge of the
inhabitants, the Salinenses, is derived from several inscriptions
painted upon walls, in which they recommend candidates for the
municipal offices, and from an inscription scratched upon the
plaster of a column in which a fuller by the name of Crescens
sends them a greeting : Cresce\n\s fullo Saline\n\sibus salute\m\.
From another inscription we learn that they had an assembly,
conventus, possibly judicial in its functions ; for in connection
with a date, it speaks of a fine of twenty sesterces, which would
amount to about 3~| shillings, or 85 cents: VII K. dec. Salinis
in conventu multa HS XX, 1 Fine of twenty sesterces; assem-
bly at Salinae, November 25.’ Still another inscription speaks
of attending such a meeting on November 19: XIII K. dec.
in conventu veni.
The suburb most frequently mentioned was at first called
Pagus Felix Suburbanus, but after the time of Augustus,
Pagus Augustus Felix Suburbanus. Its location is unknown.
As it evidently took the name of Felix from the Dictator Sulla,
who used this epithet as a surname, we may assume that its
origin dates from the establishment of the Roman colony; it
may have been founded to provide a place for those inhabitants
of Pompeii who had been forced to leave their homes in order
to make room for the colonists. The existence of a fourth
suburb is inferred from two painted inscriptions in which
candidates for office are recommended by the Campanienses ;
this name would naturally be applied to the inhabitants of
a Pagus Campanus, who, perhaps, had originally come from
Capua.
Of the government of Pompeii in the earliest times, before
the Samnite conquest, nothing is known. The names of various
magistrates in the Samnite period, however, particularly the
period of alliance with Rome (290-90 b.c.), are learned from
inscriptions. Mention is made of a chief administrative officer
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sea or to take refuge in Stabiae. Flight in either case was cut
off. If ships were in the harbor, they must soon have been
filled with the volcanic deposits; if there was a bridge across
the river it was probably thrown down by the earthquake.
A second suburb sprang up near the sea, in connection with
the salt works (salinae) of the city. Our knowledge of the
inhabitants, the Salinenses, is derived from several inscriptions
painted upon walls, in which they recommend candidates for the
municipal offices, and from an inscription scratched upon the
plaster of a column in which a fuller by the name of Crescens
sends them a greeting : Cresce\n\s fullo Saline\n\sibus salute\m\.
From another inscription we learn that they had an assembly,
conventus, possibly judicial in its functions ; for in connection
with a date, it speaks of a fine of twenty sesterces, which would
amount to about 3~| shillings, or 85 cents: VII K. dec. Salinis
in conventu multa HS XX, 1 Fine of twenty sesterces; assem-
bly at Salinae, November 25.’ Still another inscription speaks
of attending such a meeting on November 19: XIII K. dec.
in conventu veni.
The suburb most frequently mentioned was at first called
Pagus Felix Suburbanus, but after the time of Augustus,
Pagus Augustus Felix Suburbanus. Its location is unknown.
As it evidently took the name of Felix from the Dictator Sulla,
who used this epithet as a surname, we may assume that its
origin dates from the establishment of the Roman colony; it
may have been founded to provide a place for those inhabitants
of Pompeii who had been forced to leave their homes in order
to make room for the colonists. The existence of a fourth
suburb is inferred from two painted inscriptions in which
candidates for office are recommended by the Campanienses ;
this name would naturally be applied to the inhabitants of
a Pagus Campanus, who, perhaps, had originally come from
Capua.
Of the government of Pompeii in the earliest times, before
the Samnite conquest, nothing is known. The names of various
magistrates in the Samnite period, however, particularly the
period of alliance with Rome (290-90 b.c.), are learned from
inscriptions. Mention is made of a chief administrative officer