Note 071
From Chapter 31 of the Decline & Fall

This sum total is composed of 1780 domus, or great houses, of 46,602 insulae, or plebeian habitations (see Nardini, Roma Antica,1. iii. p.88); and these numbers are ascertained by the agreement of the texts of the differerent Notitiae. Nardini, l. viii, p. 498, 500.

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