The Forum Romanum (Volume 5-6) - Softcover

Parker, John Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1151257419 ISBN 13: 9781151257413

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... There can be little doubt that there was originally a drawbridge over this stream at that point. We indicate also the principal ancient reservoirs of water,--the buildings of the time of the Kings, the Republic, the Empire, and the Middle Ages, are distinguished by different tints,--the fragments of the Marble Plan of Rome, as far as they can be placed with any certainty, but not following Canina blindly, nor using the conjectural boundaries of the Regiones of Nardini or of Canina, making use of the learned works written about the time the greater part of the fragments was found (these works are collected in the fourth volume of the great Thesaurus of Graevius), but neither always following them blindly; these authors evidently supposed the plan to have been a pavement, which it was not, and therefore they did not perceive that it was on three different scales, according to the distance from the eye of the different parts of the high wall on which it was placed (see Plate xlii.). We have also traced out the lines from the Milliarium Aureum to the thirty-seven gates, as described by Pliny. Of these gates, twenty-five were in the outer wall, or wall of enceinte, which is a necessary part of any fortification. In Rome it was begun by the Tarquins as part of the great earthworks of the Kings, and the aqueducts were carried upon this vallum, agger, or bankf, before the Wall of Aurelian was built upon it. Several of the existing gates in the outer wall are as old as the time of Pliny. The other twelve gates are in the line of Servius Tullius, the boundary of The City proper until the time of Aurelian, on the eastern side of Rome. Pliny tells us not to count these twelve inner gates twice over, although in measuring from the centre of Rome to the outer gates it was nec...

About this edition

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1151257419
• ISBN 13: 9781151257413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72