subsequently-perhaps

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Of these, four had been formed under the Servian constitution for the purposes of the levy, embracing town and country alike; subsequently-perhaps in the year 259 the Roman territory had been divided into twenty districts, of which the first four embraced the city and its immediate environs, while the other sixteen were formed out of the rural territory on the basis of the clan-cantons of the earliest Roman domain.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Of these, four had been formed under the Servian constitution for the purposes of the levy, embracing town and country alike; subsequently-perhaps in the year 259 the Roman territory had been divided into twenty districts, of which the first four embraced the city and its immediate environs, while the other sixteen were formed out of the rural territory on the basis of the clan-cantons of the earliest Roman domain.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy