SERIES XXVI NOS. 9-10 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy, and Political Science STUDY OF THE TOPOGRAPHY AND MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF PRAENESTE BY RALPH VAN DEMAN MAGOFFIN, A.B. Fellow in Latin. September, October, 1908 COPYRIGHT 1908 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE TOPOGRAPHY OF PRAENESTE EXTENT OF THE DOMAIN OF PRAENESTE THE CITY, ITS WALLS AND GATES THE PORTA TRIUMPHALIS THE GATES THE WATER SUPPLY OF PRAENESTE THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA THE EPIGRAPHICAL TOPOGRAPHY OF PRAENESTE THE FORA THE SACRA VIA CHAPTER II. THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF PRAENESTE WAS PRAENESTE A MUNICIPIUM? PRAENESTE AS A COLONY THE DISTRIBUTION OF OFFICES THE REGULATIONS ABOUT OFFICIALS THE QUINQUENNALES AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF PRAENESTE A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OF PRAENESTE 1. BEFORE PRAENESTE WAS A COLONY 2. AFTER PRAENESTE WAS A COLONY PREFACE. This study is the first of a series of studies already in progress, in which the author hopes to make some contributions to the history of the towns of the early Latin League, from the topographical and epigraphical points of view. The author takes this opportunity to thank Dr. Kirby Flower Smith, Head of the Department of Latin, at whose suggestion this study was begun, and under whose supervision and with whose hearty assistance its revision was completed. He owes his warmest thanks also to Dr. Harry Langford Wilson, Professor of Roman Archaeology and Epigraphy, with whom he made many trips to Praeneste, and whose help and suggestions were most valuable. Especially does he wish to testify to the inspiration to thoroughness which came from the teaching and the example of his dearly revered teacher, Professor Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Head of the Greek Department, and he acknowledges also with pleasure the benefit from the scholarly methods of Dr. David M. Robinson, and the manifold suggestiveness of the teaching of Dr. Maurice Bloomfield. The cordial assistance of the author's aunt, Dr. Esther B. Van Deman, Carnegie Fellow in the American School at Rome, both during his stay in Rome and Praeneste and since his return to America, has been invaluable, and the privilege afforded him by Professor Dr. Christian Hülsen, of the German Archaeological Institute, of consulting the as yet unpublished indices of the sixth volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, is acknowledged with deep gratitude.