But--apart from the fact that Diodorus (xiii.

6) says nothing of it--Labici cannot have been a burgess-colony, for the town did not lie on the coast and besides it appears subsequently as still in possession of autonomy; nor can it have been a Latin one, for there is not, nor can there be from the nature of these foundations, a single other example of a Latin colony established in the original Latium.
Here as elsewhere it is most probable--especially as two -jugera- are named as the portion of land allotted--that a public assignation to the burgesses has been confounded with a colonial assignation ( I.
XIII.

System of Joint Cultivation ).
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II.IV.South Etruria Roman 17.

II.