No doubt it is a fiction of the office.

It would be only human nature if the surveyors, finding both forms in use, should invent a theory to account for them.
[63] Schulten, _Bonner Jahrbuecher_, ciii.

23, and references given there.
The system sketched in the preceding paragraphs seems, as has been said (p.

73), to have sprung from a fusion of Greek or Graeco-Macedonian with Italian customs.

Roman town-planning, like Roman art, was recast under Hellenistic influence and thus gained mathematical precision and symmetry.