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As the Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres appear to have been communities originally independent, they must have had their settlements originally apart; but they certainly did not dwell in separate circumvallations on the Seven Hills, and all fictions to this effect in ancient or modern times must be consigned by the intelligent inquirer to the same fate with the charming tale of Tarpeia and the battle of the Palatine.
At length the Roman tribe, the Ramnes, elected Numa Pompilius, from the Sabines, a man of wisdom and piety, and said to have acquired his learning from Pythagoras.
With the latter group there has been closely associated for at least two thousand five hundred years the name of the Romans. Its derivation cannot be given with certainty; possibly "Ramnes" may mean "the people on the stream." Tities, Luceres But they were not the only dwellers on the hills by the bank of the Tiber.
At the taking of the vote in the senate the senators taken from the old clans were asked before those of the "lesser." It thus appears that the synoikismos , by which the Palatine community incorporated that of the Quirinal, marked an intermediate stage between the earliest synoikismos by which the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres became blended, and all those that took place afterwards.
The chief officers of the legion were the Tribunes; and originally there was one in each legion from the three tribes, the Ramnes, Luceres, and Tities. In the time of Polybius the number in each legion was six.
Such an outpost would be useful to guard Latium against the Etrurians across the river. Of the three townships, or clans, which united to form Rome, the Ramnes, the Tities, and the Luceres, the first and third were Latin. The second, which was Sabine, blended with the Roman element, as the language proves.
There were no class-privileges: the fact that the Tities took precedence of the Ramnes, and both ranked before the Luceres, did not affect their equality in all legal rights.
With the latter group there has been closely associated for at least two thousand five hundred years the name of the Romans. Its derivation cannot be given with certainty; possibly "Ramnes" may mean "the people on the stream." Tities, Luceres But they were not the only dwellers on the hills by the bank of the Tiber.
If we have rightly assumed that the contrast between the Palatine old and the Quirinal new burgesses was identical with the contrast between the first and second Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres, it was thus the -gentes-of the Quirinal city that formed the "second" or the "lesser." The distinction, however, was certainly more an honorary than a legal precedence.
Testimonies, strictly so called, can scarcely be adduced on such a question; and least of all do such passages as Festus -v. praetor-, p. 241, and Dionys. iii. 10, suffice to stamp Alba as a Latin Athens. The Beginnings of Rome Ramnes About fourteen miles up from the mouth of the river Tiber hills of moderate elevation rise on both banks of the stream, higher on the right, lower on the left bank.
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