north and the Lesser Aventine on the south,together with part of the slopes of the Janiculum on the westbank of the Tiber. It was the action of this powerful stream andits tributaries which had furrowed the volcanic table-land withdeep inlets and isolated some of the projecting height?. Even… … i €.-i-Jlnst^Hft7 0»^*v*, liuy chap, i INTRODUCTORY 31 and frequently flooded ; and the Palatine was protected on threesides both by its walls of rock and by water, and was connectedwith the adjoining heights only by the saddle of the Velia, whichhas been compared with the single bridge of the…
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