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REG(IO) MAR(TIS)—REGIONES QUATTUOR 443
RE i. A. 465-469 ; WR 502 ; LR 221-223 ; RL xix. 1910, 201-216, where
Pais argues that the regia and Vesta cult were not established in the
forum until the fourth century b.c. ; for recent excavations—Mitt. 1886,
94-98, 99-111 ; 1902, 62-66; 1905, 77-80 ; 1921, 17-23; Archaeologia,
1887, 227-250 ; Jahrb. d. Inst. 1889, 228-253 ; NS 1899, 220-223,384-386,
486-488; BC 1899, 205-213; 1903, 42-55; 1920, 152-162; CR 1899,
322, 466; 1901, 139; AA 1900, 6-8; Atti 518-525; Toeb. 1-12 ; TF
81-85 ; DR 249-274 ; HFP 36, 37.

Text fig. 5.


Reg(io) Mar(tis) : a statue of the helmeted Mars, represented on a lead
plate (Rostowzew, Syll. n. 495 ; Rev. Num. 1898, 473), which probably
indicated (HJ xxii.) the neighbourhood of the Templum Marti's (q.v.)
outside the porta Capena, on the extreme south of the city (cf. Ad Nucem).
Regiones Quattuor : the four regions—Suburana, Esquilina, Collina,
Palatina—into which the city, within the pomerium, was divided during
the republic (Varro, LL v. 45). Tradition ascribed to Servius Tullius
(Liv. i. 43 ; Dionys. iv. 14 ; de vir. ill. 7 ; Fest. 368) the division of the
inhabitants of Rome into four tribus, which, while purely a political divi-
sion so far as our knowledge goes, are usually supposed to have been based
on the earlier local division described by Varro. This city of the Four
Regions (text fig. 5) was a stage of development intermediate between
the Palatine settlement (or the Septimontium) and what is ordinarily
 
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