eastern side it is bounded by the agger of Tarquinius Superbus, 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 neighbouring plains. On all the other sides it has been fortified either with lofty walls or steep and precipitous hills[1], but so it is, that its buildings, increasing and extending beyond all bounds, have now united many other cities to it[2].
Besides those previously mentioned, there were formerly in the first region the following famous towns of Latium: Satricum[3], Pometia[4], Scaptia, Politorium[5], Tellene, Tifata, Cænina[6], Ficana[7], Crustumerium, Ameriola[8], Medullum[9], Corniculum[10], Saturnia[11], on the site of the present city of
- ↑ The Aventine, Cælian, and Quirinal hills.
- ↑ Such as Ocriculum, Tibur, Aricia, &c.
- ↑ Near Antium. Casale di Conca stands on its site.
- ↑ Suæssa 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 which it gave its name.
- ↑ A town of Latium destroyed by Ancus Martius.
- ↑ An ancient city of Latium, conquered by Romulus; on which occasion he slew its king Aeron and gained the spolia opima. Nibby suggests that it stood on the Magugliano, two miles south-east of Monte Gentile. Holstein says that it stood where the present Sant' Angelo or Monticelli stands.
- ↑ Also destroyed by Ancus Martius. A farm called Dragonello, eleven miles from Rome, is supposed to have stood upon its site. Tellene was also destroyed by the same king. Tifata was a town of Campania.
- ↑ A city of Latium, which 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 which were incorporated 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 occasion Ocrisia, the mother of Servius Tullius, fell 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 Virgil and Ovid allude to this tradition.
or little better than an average of half-a-mile for each radius. We may also remark that the camp of the Prætorian cohorts here mentioned was established 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.
