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444 REGIONES QUATTUORDECIM
called the Servian city, a stage that was the result of the union of the
Palatine and Esquiline settlements, that is shown by archaeological
evidence to have taken place about the middle of the seventh century b.c.
(Mon. L. xv. 764). The division into four regions remained in force
until the reorganisation of Augustus.
All the area within the Pomerium (q.v.) was included in the regions
except, apparently, the Capitoline, perhaps because this hill was always
regarded as the citadel and religious centre of the city, and not as a
local division. Our knowledge of the area of the regions is derived princi-
pally from Varro’s description (LL v. 46-54) of the location of the sacraria
of the Argei (q.v.), a description based quite certainly on documents
which represented the topographical conditions of the third century b.c.
His incomplete and somewhat obscure account distributes twenty-seven
sacraria among the four regions, eleven of which can be located with
reasonable certainty, and thirteen are conjectural, while three are wholly
unknown. The outer boundary of the regions was the pomerium, which
coincided with the Servian wall down to the time of Sulla, except that
the Aventine was excluded. Region I, Suburana, comprised the Sucusa,
Ceroliensis and Caelius, according to the generally accepted view, although
this is a matter of sharp dispute (see literature cited below) ; II, Esquilina,
the Oppius and Cispius ; III, Collina, the Quirinal and the Viminal;
IV, Palatina, the Palatium, Velia and Cermalus. It is not possible to
draw the inner boundaries of these regions with exactness, nor is it certain
that all four met at a common point, near the Velia, as is sometimes
maintained.
The discussion of the four regions involves that of the Argei, and the
literature of the subject includes both topics to a greater or less degree.
Cf. especially, Jord. ii. 237-290, 599-604 ; Gilb. ii. 329-375 ; Diels. Sybil.
Blatter 43-44; DS iv. 817; Richter 9-10, 198-208; RE ii. 689-700;
i. A. 1021-1024; Mommsen, Staatsrecht iii. 122-126; Marquardt,
Staatsverwaltung iii. 190-194 ; Rosch. i. 496-500 ; KH i ; Phil. 1889,
168-169; RhM 1894, 414-416; BC 1905, 198-208; Mel. 1908, 272-274;
Mon. L. xv. 775-795 ; Wissowa, Satura Viadrina, i-i9 = Ges. Abh.
230-252 ; Beloch, Rom. Gesch. 208.
Regiones Quattuordecim : * the fourteen regions, or wards, into which
Augustus divided the city when he reformed the municipal administration
in 7 b.c. (Suet. Aug. 30 ; Cass. Dio Iv. 8). Thereafter Rome was often
designated as urbs regionum xiv or urbs sacra regionum xiv (text fig. 4).
These regions were divided into vici, and a new set of magistrates,
magistri vicorum, drawn from the common citizens, was instituted,
originally four from each vicus, but afterwards forty-eight from each
region regardless of the number of vici, and two curatores. These
magistrates had to do mainly with the religious ceremonies of the regions,
while the regular municipal administration was still in the hands of
higher officials. (For the administrative organisation of the regions, see
called the Servian city, a stage that was the result of the union of the
Palatine and Esquiline settlements, that is shown by archaeological
evidence to have taken place about the middle of the seventh century b.c.
(Mon. L. xv. 764). The division into four regions remained in force
until the reorganisation of Augustus.
All the area within the Pomerium (q.v.) was included in the regions
except, apparently, the Capitoline, perhaps because this hill was always
regarded as the citadel and religious centre of the city, and not as a
local division. Our knowledge of the area of the regions is derived princi-
pally from Varro’s description (LL v. 46-54) of the location of the sacraria
of the Argei (q.v.), a description based quite certainly on documents
which represented the topographical conditions of the third century b.c.
His incomplete and somewhat obscure account distributes twenty-seven
sacraria among the four regions, eleven of which can be located with
reasonable certainty, and thirteen are conjectural, while three are wholly
unknown. The outer boundary of the regions was the pomerium, which
coincided with the Servian wall down to the time of Sulla, except that
the Aventine was excluded. Region I, Suburana, comprised the Sucusa,
Ceroliensis and Caelius, according to the generally accepted view, although
this is a matter of sharp dispute (see literature cited below) ; II, Esquilina,
the Oppius and Cispius ; III, Collina, the Quirinal and the Viminal;
IV, Palatina, the Palatium, Velia and Cermalus. It is not possible to
draw the inner boundaries of these regions with exactness, nor is it certain
that all four met at a common point, near the Velia, as is sometimes
maintained.
The discussion of the four regions involves that of the Argei, and the
literature of the subject includes both topics to a greater or less degree.
Cf. especially, Jord. ii. 237-290, 599-604 ; Gilb. ii. 329-375 ; Diels. Sybil.
Blatter 43-44; DS iv. 817; Richter 9-10, 198-208; RE ii. 689-700;
i. A. 1021-1024; Mommsen, Staatsrecht iii. 122-126; Marquardt,
Staatsverwaltung iii. 190-194 ; Rosch. i. 496-500 ; KH i ; Phil. 1889,
168-169; RhM 1894, 414-416; BC 1905, 198-208; Mel. 1908, 272-274;
Mon. L. xv. 775-795 ; Wissowa, Satura Viadrina, i-i9 = Ges. Abh.
230-252 ; Beloch, Rom. Gesch. 208.
Regiones Quattuordecim : * the fourteen regions, or wards, into which
Augustus divided the city when he reformed the municipal administration
in 7 b.c. (Suet. Aug. 30 ; Cass. Dio Iv. 8). Thereafter Rome was often
designated as urbs regionum xiv or urbs sacra regionum xiv (text fig. 4).
These regions were divided into vici, and a new set of magistrates,
magistri vicorum, drawn from the common citizens, was instituted,
originally four from each vicus, but afterwards forty-eight from each
region regardless of the number of vici, and two curatores. These
magistrates had to do mainly with the religious ceremonies of the regions,
while the regular municipal administration was still in the hands of
higher officials. (For the administrative organisation of the regions, see