[561] The ancient mode of division by curiæ had lost all significance and ceased to be in use. (Ovid, _Fasti_, II. 1. 531.) So Cicero says, speaking of them: “The comitia, which are retained only for the sake of form, and because of the auspices, and which, represented by the thirty lictors, are but the appearance of what was before. _Ad speciem atque usurpationem vetustatis._” (_Oration on the Agrarian Law_, II. 12.)--In the latter times of the Republic, the curiæ, in the election of the magistrates, had only the inauguration of the flamens, of the king of the sacrifices (_rex sacrificulus_), and probably the choice of the grand curion (_curio maximus_). (Titus Livius, XXVII. 8.--Dionysius of Halicarnassus, V. 1.--Aulus Gellius, XV. 27.--Titus Livius, XXVII. vi. 36.) [562] “Achaia alone had twelve hundred for her share.” (Titus Livius, XXXIV. 50.) [563] Titus Livius, XXXIII. 32. [564] “The allies exclaimed that the war must be continued, and the tyrant exterminated, without which the liberty of Greece would be always in danger. It would have been better not to have taken up arms at all than to lay them down without having attained the end. The consul replied, ‘If the siege of Lacedæmon retained the army a long time, what other troops could Rome oppose to a monarch (Antiochus) so powerful and so formidable?’” (Titus Livius, XXXIV. 33.) [565] Titus Livius, XXXIII. 12. [566] Titus Livius, XXXIV. 58. [567] “Other peoples of Greece had shown in this way a no less culpable forgetfulness of the benefits of the Roman people.” (Titus Livius, XXXVI. 22.) [568] Titus Livius, XXXVII. 45. [569] Appian, _Wars of Hannibal_, 43. [570] Titus Livius, XL. 38; XLII. 22. [571] Roads from Arezzo to Bologna, from Placentia to Rimini (Titus Livius, XXXIX. 2), and from Bologna to Aquileia. [572] ROMAN COLONIES--488-608. _Æsulum_ (507), or Æsium, according to Mommsen, _Jesi_ in Umbria, on the River Æsis. _Alsium_ (507), a maritime colony, Etruria (_Via Aurelia_); _Palo_, near _Porto_. _Fregenæ_ (509), a maritime colony, Etruria (_Via Aurelia_); _Torre Maccarese_. _Pyrgi_ (before 536), maritime colony, Etruria (_Via Aurelia_); _Santa Severa_. _Castrum_ (555), _Pagus_, near Sylaceum; Bruttium, near _Squillace_; united in 631 to the colony Minerviæ. _Puteoli_ (560), maritime colony, Campania; _Pozzuoli_; Prefecture. _Vulturnum_ (560), maritime colony, Campania; _Castelamare_, or _Castel di Volturno_; Prefecture. _Liternum_ (560), maritime colony, Campania; _Tor di Patria_, near the _Lago di Patria_; Prefecture. _Salernum_ (560), maritime colony, Campania; _Salerno_; decreed three years before. _Buxentum_ (560), maritime colony, Lucania; _Policastro_. _Sipontum_ (560), maritime colony, Apulia; _Santa Maria di Siponto_; recolonised. _Tempsa_ (Temesa) (560), maritime colony, Bruttium; perhaps near to _Torre del Piano del Casale_.