42).

See the _Bullettino delta Commissione di Antichita e Belle Arti in Sicilia_, viii.

Palermo, August 1875.

Cavallari himself assigned this plan to the date when Soluntum was founded--which is unfortunately uncertain--but only on the general ground that 'in una citta, una volta tracciate le strade e disposte le arterie dicommunicazione, non e facile cambiarne la disposizione generale'.

I attach less weight than he does to this reason.
Soluntum was in the main and by origin a Phoenician town, with a Greek colouring; in 307 B.C.it was refounded for the discharged soldiers of Agathocles; later still, in Roman times, it had the rank of 'municipium'; most of its ruins are generally considered to be of Roman date and small objects found in it are also mostly Roman, and its street-plan may also be Roman.