01-18-2021, 12:04 PM
"Roman milestones only measure distances from civitas capitals or provincial capitals"
That's too restrictive, I think. "Roughly speaking, the capita are either military posts or places of preëminent political or commercial importance." So wrote Laing in 1908. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Jo...arum*.html There are examples of Roman coloniae serving as capita, or some places significant otherwise. "On a stone of the second century we find Sumelocenna as caput; it was the chief place not of a tribe, but of an imperial saltus."
I have no access to CIL XVII, don't know whether its authors have made any general statements on the question.
That's too restrictive, I think. "Roughly speaking, the capita are either military posts or places of preëminent political or commercial importance." So wrote Laing in 1908. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Jo...arum*.html There are examples of Roman coloniae serving as capita, or some places significant otherwise. "On a stone of the second century we find Sumelocenna as caput; it was the chief place not of a tribe, but of an imperial saltus."
I have no access to CIL XVII, don't know whether its authors have made any general statements on the question.
Sergey
