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Wanderings in the Roman campagna (1909)

Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 86

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the roof had caved in to the spring of1884, we were able to gather from their study all theseinteresting details. One of the most irritating problems in this subject ofthe extinction of life in the Camj^agna is that concern-ing the fate of Ostia, a city of fifty thousand inhabitants,a city of… … THE CITHARCEDE APOLLO FOUND IN THE VILLA OF VOCONIUS POLLIO THE LAND OF SATURN 59 hosts, like Concordia Sagittaria; it was not 1)uried underits own pall of ruins and never disturbed in its rest;Ostia died a lingering death, by starvation, inanition,consumption, decrepitude, pillaged at leisure by…

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