Note 274 — Chapter III · THE THIRTY-FIVE TRIBES

The text followed is that of Jacoby. The reading represented by Jordan, Cato, p. 8, is not satisfactory. We have no ground for impugning the statement of Dionysius that Fabius actually called the country districts phylae, tribes. He may have termed them at once μοῖραι, “regions,” and phylae with perfect consistency; cf. Kubitschek, Rom. trib. or. 7, n. 34.