It may have been much earlier.

These first settlers of Rome were possibly a colony from Alba.

In the early stages of their history they united themselves with a Sabine colony that had settled north of them on the QUIRINAL HILL.

The name of TITIES was given to this new tribe.

A third tribe, named LUCERES, composed, possibly, of conquered Latins, was afterwards added and settled upon the COELIAN HILL.