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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 38

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rplantation). We hear of a certain Balbus, who published a collection offormac civitatium derived from the survey of Augustus,^ and it isnot unreasonable to suppose that the sketches found in the MSS.of Hyginus are ultimately derived from this collection. Such a forma civltatis or town-survey is… … Fig. 4. Sketch-plan of Anxur (^Termcina) from the tract of Hyginus. Arausio was founded by Julius Caesar, but with a document oflater date drawn up for revenue purposes, perhaps in connexionwith the census of Gaul carried out by order of Augustus in theyears 27-13 b. c. The inscription, so far as…

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