It is certainly not accidental that these four guilds, the only ones of the sort that occur in Rome, belong to the very two hills excluded from the four local tribes but enclosed by the Servian wall, the Capitol and the Aventine, and the Janiculum belonging to the same fortification; and connected with this is the further fact that the expression -montani paganive- is employed as a designation of the whole inhabitants in connection with the city (comp.

besides the well-known passage, Cic.

de Domo, 28, 74, especially the law as to the city aqueducts in Festus, v.
sifus, p.

340; [-mon]tani paganive si[fis aquam dividunto-]).

The -montani-, properly the inhabitants of the three regions of the Palatine town (iv.