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Varo also provides evidence for vici in [[Republican Rome]], deriving the word vicus from via and which are analagous to our modern ‘[[Neighbourhood|neighbourhoods]]’<ref name=":0" />. By the middle Republic each vici had a local official known as a vicomagistrato<ref name=":0" />.
By the time of Augustus, local shrines in the vici had become neglected<ref name=":0" /> and from around 12 BC he began restoring individual vici before comprehensive reform in 7 BC, including codifying the rights and duties of the vicomagistrati<ref name=":0" />. At this time, the city was reorganised into fourteen newly-defined 'regiones' overseen by senatorial magistrates<ref name=":0" />.
==The 14 regions==
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