"coire," to meet.

The city thus being doubled in number, an hundred of the Sabines
were elected senators, and the legions were increased to six
thousand foot and six hundred horse; then they divided the people
into three tribes: the first, from Romulus, named Ramnenses; the
second, from Tatius, Tatienses; the third, Luceres, from the
"lucus," or grove, where the Asylum stood, whither many fled for
sanctuary, and were received into the city. And that they were
just three, the very name of "tribe" and "tribune" seems to show.
Then they constituted many things in honor to the women, such as
to give them the way wherever they met them; to speak no ill word
in their presence; that their children should wear an ornament
about their necks called the "bulla" (because it was like a
bubble), and the "praetexta," a gown edged with purple.

The princes did not immediately join in council together, but at
first each met with his own hundred; afterwards all assembled
together. Tatius dwelt where now the temple of Moneta stands, and
Romulus, close by the steps, as they call them, of the Fair Shore,
near the descent from the Mount Palatine to the Circus Maximus.
There, they say, grew the holy cornel tree, of which they report
that Romulus once, to try his strength, threw a dart from the
Aventine Mount, the staff of which was made of cornel, which
struck so deep into the ground that no one of many that tried
could pluck it up; and the soil, being fertile, gave nourishment
to the wood, which sent forth branches, and produced a cornel-
stock of considerable bigness. This did posterity preserve and
worship as one of the most sacred things; and therefore, walled it
about; and if to any one it appeared not green nor flourishing,