1870) in stating that magistrates of this title were already at work in the earlier part of the fifth century; the poet uses the noun in a general sense from which it was afterwards specialized.

Some of the regulations recur at Rome (p.

137).
The municipal by-laws which these passages suggest clearly came into use before, though perhaps not long before, the middle of the fourth century.

They do not directly concern town-planning; they involve building regulations only as one among many subjects, and those regulations are such as might be, and in many cases have been, adopted where town-planning was unknown.

But they are natural forerunners of an interest in town-planning.