ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

usually attended the consecration of a temple, and the college as a whole had final say inwhether a temple could be established and what provisions might be necessary in doingso. 72Finally, the curule and plebeian aediles supervised the maintenance of certain publicbuildings, such as temples, and other places including markets and roads.Thus, if thecolony functioned according to the Roman model, the division of land, construction ofcivic structures, and their subsequent maintenance was a cooperative effort of themajority of the magistrates and priests.In Rome, the pontifical college was responsible for the calendar and for keepingan annual record of events. 74For the colony, the calendar began with the officialfoundation date, when the lex colonia was set up in the forum.We know these dates forthree of the colonies: Brundisium was founded on Aug. 5, 244; Placentia's birth date wasMay 31,218; and Bononia's was Dec 30, 189. 76 In the late Republic, it was not thepontiffs who determined the first calendar of the colony, but the colonial magistrates andtown council. This is specifically stipulated in the charter for the Caesarian colony ofUrso in Spain, founded in 44 BCE. 77Ilviri quicumque post solon. deductum erunt, ii in deibus Xproxumis, quibuseum mag. gerere coeperint, at decuriones referunto, cum non minus duae partesaderint, quos et quot diesfestos esse et quae sacra fieri publice placeat et quosea sacra facere placeat. Urso Charter 6472 E.g. the college of pontiffs was consulted when Marcellus had vowed a temple of Honos and Virtus (Livy27.25.7-10); they determined that a single cella could not hold two gods. Cf. Stambaugh (1978), p. 559.73 Roth (1999), p. 150. See also Livy 31.4.6, 50.1; 33.42.8.74 Beard, North, and Price (1998), p. 25.75 Salmon (1970), p. 26.76 Brundisium: Cic. Att. IV. 1.4; Placentia: Asc. Pis. P3 C; and Bononia: Livy 37.57.7.77 Constitution of Urso (44 BCE) ILS 6087 paragraph 64; CIL 11.5,439, Beard, North, and Price (1998),Vol. 2 10.2a, with discussion in Beard, North, and Price (1998), Vol. 1 p. 157; see also Wardman (1982),pp. 14-5.120