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204} pliny's natueal histoht. [Book III. 
eastern side it is bounded by the 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 citj lay most exposed to attack from the neigh- 
boiu'ing plains. On all the 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 I 
in the first region the following famous towns of Latium : 
Satricum^, Pometia'*, Scaptia, Politorium^, Tellene, Tifata, , 
CsBnina^, Ficana', Crustumerium, Ameriola^, Medullum^, 
Corniculum^^, Saturnia^\ on the site of the present city of 
or little better than an average of half-a-mile for each radius. We may also 
remark that the camp of the Prsetorian cohorts here mentioned was 
estabhshed by the emperor Tiberius, by the advice of Sejanus. Ajasson's 
translation makes the measurement to be made to twelve gates only, but 
the text as it stands will not admit of such a construction. - t 
^ The Aventine, Csehan, and Quirinal hills. | 
2 Such as Ocriculum, Tibur, Aricia, &c. ] 
' Near Antium. Casale di Conca stands on its site. 
^ Susessa Pometia. It was destroyed by the consul ServiHus, and its | 
site was said, with that of twenty-two other towns, to have been covered 1 
by the Pomptine Marsh, to which it gave its name. j 
^ A town of Latium destroyed by Ancus Martins. ' 
^ An ancient city of Latium, conquered by Romulus ; on which occa- [ 
sion he slew its king Acron and gained the spolia ojpima, Nibby sug- 
gests that it stood on the Magughano, two miles south-east of Monte j 
Grentile. Holstein says that it stood where the present Sant' Angelo or 1 
Monticelli stands. 
7 Also destroyed by Ancus Martins. A farm called Dragonello, 
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, which was conquered by Tarquinius Prisons. 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 which were incorporated by Tarquinius 
Prisons with the Roman citizens. It is supposed to have stood on the 
present Mont'e Sant' Angelo. ^ 
10 An ancient city of Latium, subdued by Tarquinius Prisons, on which t 
occasion Ocrisia, the mother of Servius Tulhus, fell into the hands of the 
Romans as a captive. It was probably situate on one of the isolated i 
hills that rise from the plain of the Campagna. 
11 Both YirgQ and Ovid allude to this tradition. 
