Note 5 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
Reading edition
The ancients derived Palatine from the balare or palare of cattle (Festus p. 220) or from the shepherd’s god Pales (Solinus i. 15). It is perhaps derived from the root pa (pasco). See O. Gilbert Geschichte u. Topographie der Stadt Rom in Altertum i. p. 17.