Save for the riddle of Marzabotto (p.
61), we have no reason to connect the Etruscans with town-planning or with the Roman system of surveying.

When the Roman antiquary Varro alleged that 'the Romans founded towns with Etruscan ritual', he set the fashion for many later assertions by Roman and modern writers.[54] But he did not prove his allegation, and it is not so clear as is generally assumed, that he meant 'Etruscan ritual' to include architectural town-planning as well as religious ceremonial.
[53] The prologue to the Poenulus of Plautus (verse 49) which mentions 'limites' and a 'finitor', may well be as old as Plautus himself.

But the 'centuriation' still visible in north Italy around colonies planted about 180 B.C.is no full proof of rectangular surveying at that date.

These towns were re-founded at a much later date, and their lands, and even their streets, _may_ have been laid out anew.
[54] Varro _ling.lat_.5.143 _oppida condebant Etrusco ritu, id est, iunctis bobus_, cf.

Frontinus _de limit_.