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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 (1837)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836 · London : Lewis A. Lewis · leaf 309

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at, in digging in the plain, the hard marinesand soon appears ; and, in short, the probability seems thatthe Sarno originally entered the sea not far fi-om the ValleDiruta and the road between the amphitheatre and Scafati,where was the port of Pompeii, and where the magazines ofNola and Acerra were… … APPENDIX. 20»V passage, he is persuaded that Demosthenes shows a pompeionto have been a magazine of corn, and that Pollux, in Onomast.lib. ix. C. 5, says, Ilepi twv Kara OaXarTwv /xtpojv Ti]g iroXsdjgwas a pompeion, citing Demosthenes in Phormionem. Thename, being a plural, has been thought by some…

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