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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 169

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of the same name, erected inRome near the Stadium (Piazza Navona) by Domitian.The reason for the erection of these last named spectacu-lar places, the Stadium and the Odeum, must be soughtin the contemporary institution of the Agon Capitolinus, 140 WANDERINGS IN THE ROIVIAN CAMPAGNA a musical,… … The falling horse from a quadriga discovered in the Va\e ofTemj)e and transformed into a group of Quintus Curtiusleaping into the chasm and playing, the art of verse-making and improvisation.In the third section there was also a race for girls in theStadium, a most interesting spectacle, if, as we…

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