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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 301

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same time a form of endearment: aporticula (small veranda), a tecta ambulatiuncula (smallcovered walk), an atriolum (small court), and so on.Yet, notwithstanding their modesty of size, these coun-try houses were of great value, and commanded a high 200 WANDERIXCiS IN THE ROALAN CAMPAGNA price in… … A rustic gate of a Tusculan \ina (Falcoiiieri) not rejwesent two thirds of his actual losses. In anotherletter to Atticus (.591) a certain Pilius is said to have pur-chased five eighths of an acre at the exorbitant price ofone hundred and fifteen thousand sesterces (four thou-sand six hundred…

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