107).
But it is very slight, and for the use of the other terms there is next to no evidence at all.[55] The silence alike of literature and of inscriptions shows that they were, at the best, theoretical expressions, confined to the surveyor's office.[56] [55] Whether the _possessores ex vico Lucretio scamno primo_ of Cologne (Corpus XIII.

8254) had their property inside the 'colonia' of that place or in the country outside, may be doubted (Schulten, _Bonner Jahrb._ ciii.

28).
[56] The phrase Roma Quadrata ought, perhaps, to be mentioned in this chapter.

It does not seem, however, to be demonstrably older than the Ciceronian age.

The line _et qui sextus erat Romae regnare quadratae_, once attributed to Ennius (ed.