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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 384

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li was in store for them, are still perfect.They consist of a ditch or artificial valley 1.50 feet wide,50 feet deep, and nearly two miles long, which furnishedmaterial for an emljankment on the inner side, withflanking walls of stone in the neighborhood of the gates.The view from the top of this… … The great earthworks raised by the Volscians for the defence of Antium on the land side Pontia to the south and west. Similar earthworks havebeen described at Satricum (Le Ferriere di Conca), atArdea, and in Rome itseh, where the /b^.s-a and the aggerof Servius Tullius made the city impregnal^le at…

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