Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 169
hed ; the Acqua Felice,so called after the monastic name of its restorer, Six- 166 THE CLA UDIAN A Q UED UCT. tus V. (Fra Felice), which is probably a portion of theancient Aqua Claudia ; and the Acqiia Paola, the ancientAqua Alsietina. Of the ruins of the other aqueducts, the most consider-able… … The Claudian Aqueduct.—(Venuti, Antichita di Roma.) flowers, ivy, and the wild fig-tree, form everywhere apicturesque feature in the landscape. Speaking of the Claudian Aqueduct, Mr, Story re-marks :—* Under its shadow sheep nibble, and between its sunnyopenings, or mounted on its broken ledges,…
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