This study is the first of a series of studies already inprogress, in which the author hopes to make some contributionsto the history of the towns of the early Latin League,from the topographical and epigraphical points of view.
The author takes this opportunity to thank Dr. KirbyFlower Smith, Head of the Department of Latin, at whosesuggestion this study was begun, and under whose supervisionand with whose hearty assistance its revision wascompleted.
He owes his warmest thanks also to Dr. Harry LangfordWilson, Professor of Roman Archæology and Epigraphy,with whom he made many trips to Præneste, and whosehelp and suggestions were most valuable.
Especially does he wish to testify to the inspiration tothoroughness which came from the teaching and the exampleof his dearly revered teacher, Professor Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve,Head of the Greek Department, and he acknowledgesalso with pleasure the benefit from the scholarlymethods of Dr. David M. Robinson, and the manifold suggestivenessof the teaching of Dr. Maurice Bloomfield.
The cordial assistance of the author's aunt, Dr. Esther B.Van Dem