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 202
-ficent porticoes upon threesides. At a short distancefrom the town the poet Ca-tullus had a paternal estate ;Sallust, the historian of theJugurthine War and the Cati-linarian Conspiracy, also re-sided in this delightful neigh-bourhood ; the Cynthia, sohighly celebrated by Proper-tius, was one of… … 20O CATARACT OF THE ANIO. from Rome. The Anio is here pent up in a nar-row mountain-valley, and forced with a tremendousrush over a natural rocky barrier into a lower ravine,forming the celebratetl waterfall, about eighty feet high,which is so frequently mentioned by the writers of an-tiquity.
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