(grom.i.p.

27).
These are Italian customs, far older than the beginnings of Greek influence on Rome, older than the systematic town-planning of the Greek lands, and older also than the Etruscans.

They should be treated as an ancestral heritage of the Italian tribes kindred with Rome, and should be connected with the plan of Pompeii and with the far older Terremare.

Many generations in the family tree have no doubt been lost.

The genealogy can only be taken as conjectural.