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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii (1824)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850 · London : Rodwell and Martin · leaf 37

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ned. They certainly inti-mate the connexion between the occupier and his patron,whose name is always most conspicuous. In the firsts Unen-tinus, with his disciples, places his house under the protectionof Sabinus and Rufus, who were probably Romans. Thesecond has been engraved upon an old worn-out… … POMPEIANA. 167 The method of watering the town willbe found to have been by a general dis-tribution of fountains, and we may recollectthat Cato forbade any individual havingthe public water laid on to his house.Like all the early laws intended to restrainthe progress of luxury, this was of…

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