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nics, were divided into feveral diftrids, or pagi , which 
were confidered as diftind communities. And be- 
caufc differences would fometimcs happen among 
them afterwards about the limits of their poffellions, 
the magiftri pagorum were impowered to ad juft 
them, and prevent ali incroachments of that fort. 
For which end alfo public proceftions were made 
at certain times, accompanied with iacrifices and 
other religious ceremonies a , in honour of the tute- 
lar deity of the place, the expenle of which was 
born by contributions of the inhabitants; as was 
fhewn in a former paper, which I had the honour 
to lay before this Society b . Thefe officers had 
likewife the care of the roads, which led from 
one town or village to another, within their refpe- 
dive jurifdidions, to keep them in good repair c. 
And another part of their duty was to provide ac- 
commodations for the armies in their march, as alfo 
for the governors of provinces, and other great per- 
fons, in palling thro their feveral diftrids upon pu- 
blic affairs Horace feems to refer to this, when 
he fa is : 
Hue venturiis erat Maecenas , optima ; atque 
Coc cents, mijfi magnis de rebus uterque 
Legati ; averfos foliti componere arnicos. 
And loon after : 
Proxima Campano ponti qii£ villula tettum 
Praebu:ti et parochi , quae debent, ligna falemque e . 
4 Siculus F/accui, pag.cf, 25, edit. Gocf. 
b See Fbilof. Tranfad. uum . 486. 
c Sicul. Flacc. ubi J'upr a. Fra g, Magov. et V<sg. pag 255, 
d Sic. F lac. pag. 25. 
* Serm, Lib. i. Eclog. v. v. 27,45. 
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