A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy: With a Map and a Plan of Rome, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1826 - Ethnology |
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... fourteen regions - Description of these and the most remarkable buildings and monuments contained in each . INDEX TO THE ANTIQUITIES OF ROME . 346 . The reader is referred to the following editions of those CONTENTS .
... fourteen regions - Description of these and the most remarkable buildings and monuments contained in each . INDEX TO THE ANTIQUITIES OF ROME . 346 . The reader is referred to the following editions of those CONTENTS .
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... build many towns . That of Veleia Veleia . m D'Anville , Anal . Geogr . de l'Italie , p . 75 . " Ed . Schweighauser , var . lect . p . 261. vol . i . which Cluverius from his ignorance of its position has assigned GALLIA CISALPINA . myy.
... build many towns . That of Veleia Veleia . m D'Anville , Anal . Geogr . de l'Italie , p . 75 . " Ed . Schweighauser , var . lect . p . 261. vol . i . which Cluverius from his ignorance of its position has assigned GALLIA CISALPINA . myy.
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... buildings . d For an account of the in- teresting discoveries made re- lating to the site and remains of this ancient town in 1817 , see the Giorn . Arcadico di Roma , or an extract from it in the Li- terary Gazette , Lond . Jan. 1824 ...
... buildings . d For an account of the in- teresting discoveries made re- lating to the site and remains of this ancient town in 1817 , see the Giorn . Arcadico di Roma , or an extract from it in the Li- terary Gazette , Lond . Jan. 1824 ...
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... buildings and monuments contained in each . It would require much greater space than the li- mits of this work will allow of , to examine at length the authenticity of the sources from which the Ro- man history , such as it has been ...
... buildings and monuments contained in each . It would require much greater space than the li- mits of this work will allow of , to examine at length the authenticity of the sources from which the Ro- man history , such as it has been ...
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... build- ings . ( Dion . Hal . IV . 13. ) Antiquaries are not pre- cisely agreed as to the increase made in the circuit of the walls of Rome by Aurelian . If we are to be- lieve Vopiscus , it must have been very considerable , as he ...
... build- ings . ( Dion . Hal . IV . 13. ) Antiquaries are not pre- cisely agreed as to the increase made in the circuit of the walls of Rome by Aurelian . If we are to be- lieve Vopiscus , it must have been very considerable , as he ...
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