This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Campagna during the most flourishing period of Roman prosperity, we have sufficient and unquestionable evidence. Horace, to give a full idea of a lonely deserted spot, says, i Gabiis desertior atque, Fidenis vicus It is to be observed that Fidence. was five, Gabii ten miles from Rome.-f" Propertius ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Campagna during the most flourishing period of Roman prosperity, we have sufficient and unquestionable evidence. Horace, to give a full idea of a lonely deserted spot, says, i Gabiis desertior atque, Fidenis vicus It is to be observed that Fidence. was five, Gabii ten miles from Rome.-f" Propertius expresses the solitude of Gabii in a very concise but emphatical manner. Lib. iii. ( It is probable, that most of the persons killed by the fall of an amphitheatre at Fidena in the reign of Tiberius, were Romans, who flocked from the capital to the amusements of a neighboring village or rather suburb.--Tac. Ann. ill. Et qui nunc nulli, maxima turba Gafci. Lib. 4to.-Strabo, who lived in the time of Tiberius, represents the cities of Ardea and Laurentum as having been destroyed by the Samnites, and still in ruins in his time. To these he adds many others, such as Lavinium, Collatia, Antemruz, Fregellce, &C. which he says had dwindled into villages; so-that the central regions of Italy, and Latium itself, do not appear to have abounded with population, even during that prosperous period. That Ostia, though the seaport of Rome, should lose almost all its inhabitants, when the capital was on the decline, must appear very natural, when we consider that the air was infected by the neighboring marshes and the harbor nearly choked up with sand. Every reader is acquainted with the beautiful description of Lucan, who, as a poet, affects to foretel at the battle of Pharsalia, the desolation which he himself witnessed. Juvenal represents the Pomptine marshes as a receptacle of robbers, and speaks of guards employed for the protection of travellers.-)-I need not repeat what I have related elsewhere, that Cicero mentions an attack made upon a friend of bis at...
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