The Seviri

The citizens of Treviso were part of one of 35 tribes: the Claudians.

A stone tablet contains the names of four "Seviri" who layed and paved (via cum crepidinibus) a street that went from the Quadruvium (intersection between the cardium and the decumanus) to the walls along the Sile river.

This road can be identified as the Calmaggiore (once "callis maior") of which the remains can be seen under the Marzą shop in direction N-W.

This is the meaning of what is written, in irregular but legible and clear Latin characters, in the stone tablet in the figure, discovered in 1760 when the Cathedral was being rebuilt; a copy is fixed to the steeple next to the church.

The Seviri were the six magistrates in charge of public building, justice, etc.

	"L. LAMPONIUS L.L.ONESIMUS P. CARMINIUS P. L. LICINIUS P. TERENTIUS P.L. VEGETUS P. CARMINIUS P. L. PRIMUS IIIIII VIRI VIAM CUM CREPIDINIBUS A QUADRUVIO AD MURUM STRAVERUNT OB HONOR."
"Lucius Lamponius Onesimus freedman of Lucius, Publius Carminius Licinius freedman of Publius, Publius Terentius Vegetus freedman of Publius, Publius Carminius Primus freedman of Publius, Seviri, ordered the laying of pavements from the quadruvium up to the wall, in their honour".

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