Besides, this plot at one end adjoined a 'ludus' or gladiatorial school, and it fronted AD K, _ad kardinem_, on to the street called in surveying language the 'cardo'.

The whole land apparently belonged to one lessee who held it from the municipality on something like a perpetual lease.[93] [93] For the inscription see Esperandieu, _Acad.

des Inscriptions, Comptes rendus_, 1904, p.

497; Cagnat, _Annee Epigr._, 1905, 12; and especially Schulten, _Hermes_, 1906, 1; a convenient English account is given by H.S.Jones, _Companion to Roman Hist._, p.
22.

It has been suggested by Schulten that the blocks were at first divided into plots of 35 ft.