ements of Claudiuss moles and islandhave recently been more accurately determined by M. Carcopino. Trajans attention was not confined to the mouth of the Tiber.Some miles to the north he created the port of Centumcellae in an 158 ARCHITECTUEE CHAP. II open bay upon whose shores stood an Imperial… … which is described by Pliny the younger, who speaks of shiploadsof huge rocks being sunk until the mass appeared above thesurface. This harbour, under its modern name of Civita Vecchia,*is to-day the principal port of Rome. On the Adriatic coastTrajan called into being a counterpart of the harbour…
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