Note 283 — Chapter III · THE THIRTY-FIVE TRIBES

Röm. Staatsr. iii. 163 ff. Mommsen calls attention to epigraphic evidence, cited more fully by Kubitschek, Imp. rom. trib. discr. 26 f., which assigns Ostia unmistakably to the Voturia tribus. He notices further that the same sort of evidence which places Ostia in the Palatina would give Puteoli, Sutrium, Canusium, and Fundi to the same city tribe, which is impossible. The error of including Alba and Ostia in the Palatina is due to neglect of the fact that men excluded from the country tribes were assigned to those of the city irrespective of domicile; cf. Röm. Staatsr. iii. 442 f., with notes.