The triumvirate led 3,000 families to settle the area meaning Aquileia probably had a population of 20,000 soon after its founding. Meanwhile, based on the evidence of names chiselled on stone, the majority of colonizing families came from Picenum, Samnium, and Campania, which also explains why the colony was "Latin" and not "Roman". Among these colonists, "pedites" received 50 "iugera" of land each, "centuriones" received 100 "iugera" each, and "equites" received 140 "iugera" each. Either at the founding or not long afterwards, colonists from the nearby Veneti supplemented these families.