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eastern side it is bounded by tlie agger of Tarquinius Su- 

 perbus, a work of surpassing grandeur; for he raised it 

 so high as to be on a level with the walls on the side 

 on which the city lay most exposed to attack from the neigh- 

 bouring plains. On all tlie other sides it has been fortified 

 either with lofty walls or steep and precipitous hills \ but so 

 it is, that its buildings, increasing and extending beyond all 

 bounds, have now united many other cities to it^. 



Besides those previously mentioned, there were formerly 

 in the first region the following famous to^^Tis of Latium : 

 Satricum^, Pometia"', Scaptia, Politorium\ Tellene, Tifata. 

 Caenina^, Ficana^, Crustumerium, Ameriola^, Medullum^, 

 Corniculmn^", Saturnia^\ on the site of the present city ot 



or little better than an average of half-a-mile for each radius. We may also 

 remark that the camp of the Prsetoriau cohorts here mentioned was 

 estabhshed by the emperor Tiberius, bj the advice of Sejanus. Ajasson's 

 translation makes the measm'ement to be made to twelve gates only, but 

 the text as it stands Avill not admit of such a construction. 



^ The Aventine, Crelian, and Quirmal liills. 



2 Such as Ocriculum, Tibur, Aricia, &c. 



' Near Antium. Casale di Conca stands on its site. 



■* Suaessa Pometia. It was destroyed by the consul Servilius, and its 

 site was said, with that of twenty-two other towns, to have been covered 

 by the Pomptine Marsh, to wliich it gave its name. 



^ A town of Latium destroyed by Ancus Martius. 



^ An ancient city of Latium, conquered by Romulus ; on which occa- 

 sion he slew its kmg Acron and gained the spolia opinia. Nibbv sug- 

 gests that it stood on the Magvighano, two miles south-east of Monte 

 GrentUe. Holstein says that it stood where the present Sant' Angelo or 

 MonticeUi stands. 



"^ Also destroyed by Ancus Martius. A farm called DragoneUo, 

 eleven miles from Rome, is supposed to have stood upon its site. Tel- 

 lene was also destroyed by the same king. Tifata was a town of Cam- 

 pania. 



^ A city of Latium, wliich was conquered by Tarquinius Priscus. It 

 has been suggested that its ruins are visible about a mile to the north of 

 Monte Sant' Angelo. 



^ A Sabine town, the people of wliich were mcorporated by Tarquinius 

 Priscus with the Roman citizens. It is supposed to have stood on the 

 present Monte Sant' Angelo. 



^^ An ancient city of Latium, subdued by Tarquinius Priscus, on which i 

 occasion Ocrisia, the mother of Servius Tulhus, feU into the hands of the 

 Romans as a captive. It was probably situate on one of the isolated 

 hills that rise from the plain of the Campagna. 



" Both Yii'gil and Ovid allude to tliis tracUtion. 



