We need not hesitate to put town and camp side by side, and to accept the statement that the Roman camp was a city in arms.

Nor need we hesitate to conjecture further that in the planning of the town, as in that of the camp, Greek influence may have added a more rigid use of rectangular 'insulae'.

When that occurred, will be discussed in Chapter VI.
Whether the nomenclature of the augur, the soldier and the land-commissioner was adopted in the towns, is a more difficult, but fortunately a less important question.

Modern writers speak of the _cardo_ and the _decumanus_ of Roman towns, and even apply to them more highly technical terms such as _striga_ and _scamnum_.

For the use of _cardo_ in relation to towns there is some evidence (p.