Boethius, On Geometry (with other geometrical works)

colony origin.

...they are indeed attached to them, most especially because of the fortification: thus they are called acture colimata surveyed/measured according to the land from the new dedication of the fields, which are the colonies that began to be affixed to these inscriptions at that time. Therefore, so that we may not appear to have omitted anything, if we follow their examples more, it will often be necessary to look back at the form. And since the heights of mountains could be shown at all through the ascent, we also left behind signs constructed from stones on those same ridges with much labor. And it is fortified and widened, by which the quantity of places that emanates through the divisions of waters and the ratio of the countryside is very well known. The usage of the banks preserves other places. By this, even if the enemy wished to infest us, we could prevent them by attacking them from the nearest bank. For we established straight boundaries around the maritime region from compacted stones; we demonstrated our straightening of the boundaries again because all the colonists who are placed by the sea border on the shore of the sea. We arranged the fields of the valleys by ordinary law, which we named metatiuos surveyed/allotted. In the plain, however, the boundaries are correctly marked out in a grid. Many boundaries are assigned mixed with the fields, whose measurement of the boundaries, although it may be diverse, nevertheless are distant from one to another by 100 feet, by 150 feet, by 240 feet, by 300 feet, by 390 feet, by 440 feet, by 480 feet, by 600 feet, by 700 feet, by 840 feet, by 972 feet, by 1700 feet, by 1800 feet, by 2200 feet. In the long view only, by which signs being recognized in turn, if a boundary is there...