SUC(C)USA
* a conjectural emendation for SUBURA (q.v.) in Festus (348),
where Antistius Labeo is quoted as the authority for a list of montes
in the
SEPTIMONTIUM (q.v.), eight instead of seven. This emendation
is based on the existence of a pagus Succusanus, a district which was
of course outside the limits of the city in its early stages. This pagus
is mentioned in two of our sources-Varro,
LL v. 48:
sed [ego a] pago
potius Succusano dictam (i.e. Suburam) puto. Succusanus nunc scribitur
tertia littera c non B. Pagus Succusanus quod succurrit Carinis; Fest.
309: Suburam Verrius 1 a pago Succusano dictam ait ... ita appellatam
et regionem urbis et tribum a stativo praesidio quod solitum sit succurrere
Esquiliis infestantibus ear partem urbis Gabinis. Those who accept
this emendation locate the Sucusa on the Caelian, south-east of the
Ceroniae, just inside the porta Caelimontana of the Servian wall
(HF i.), and the pagus Succusanus still further east, the district extending north-east from the Lateran. This position of the pagus accords
with the statement of Festus but hardly with that of Varro. The whole
question of the relation of Subura, Succusa and pagus Succusanus, and
the location of the latter is very obscure and has given rise to much
discussion.
2 See especially Wissowa, Septimontium und Subura, Satura
Viadrina, 1-19
3;
CP 1906, 69-80;
AJA 1908, 172-183; REi. A. 1018-1019,
and the other literature cited in these articles, and under Septimontium.