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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii (1875)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850, Heath, Charles, 1785-1848 · London : Chatto and Windus · leaf 19

An illustration from Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii, 1875, leaf 19
. During two months,the Draco or Sarnus divided the contending armies, untilTeias, the Grothic king, retired to Mount Lactarius, wherehe was defeated and slain by the eunuch Narses. Withthat war ended the existence of the last assembly pre-tending to the name of a Roman senate. This delightful… … MAP OF CAMPANIA. xiii rogatives of Italy. Its wines, its roses, its vases, wereequally celebrated; though its diseases should not beforgotten in ancient or modern times. Ptolemy bounds Campania by the Lirys and Sarnus.Frontinus tells us it was longer than broad. The greatestlength, according to…

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