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Updated: May 19, 2025
The census showed that the city and suburbs contained eighty-three thousand inhabitants. In earlier times they had been: Palatinus, Cermalus, Velia, Fagutal, Oppius, Cispius, and Coelius. The inhabitants within the walls were divided into four "regions" or districts the Palatine, the Colline, the Esquiline, and the Suburran.
Though he was no longer in office, his time seems to have been as fully occupied as when he was Prætor or Consul. We have records of at least a dozen speeches, made B.C. 55 and B.C. 54, between that against Piso and the next that is extant, which was delivered in defence of Plancius. He defended Cispius, but Cispius was convicted.
Beyond this sparkling line, rose the twin summits Oppius and Cispius, of the Esquiline hill, still decked with the dark foliage of the ancestral groves of oak and sweet-chesnut, said to derive their origin from Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome, and green with the long grass and towering cypresses of the plebeian cemetery, across which the young man had come home, from the villa of his lady-love, but a few hours before.
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