Whether Rome was considered as a colony from Alba, or as planted by the son of Mars, who stood in the place of a parent city, its foundation was supposed, and related as from tradition, to have been accompanied by all the solemnities usual in new colonies. As Romulus was made to trace the pomœrium with a plough, so to him was ascribed the assignment of two jugers a-piece to each of the citizens, as inheritable property; and it cannot be doubted that in very early times the Roman territory was actually divided into such small allotments. A hundred such formed an ancient century, of two hundred jugers of arable, inclosed by strips that were drawn according to the rules of augury as immovable limits. This was the district of a cury: that each possest an equal one, is among the traditions of the old law: and that a hundred householders were assigned to each cury is clear, because three thousand warriors were reckoned for the three tribes, as the colonists of Antium are designated as a thousand soldiers: and hence the statement that at the first there were a thousand householders in Rome was unquestionably understood of the Ramnes, though it may originally have related to a state of things the remembrance of which was studiously obliterated. A cury is also shewn to have contained a hundred citizens by the ten decuries it consisted of.