Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 2 (of 2) : $b comprising Greece and her colonies, Epirus, Macedonia, Illyricum, Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the north of Africa, etc.Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
History
Lectures on ancient ethnography and geography, volume 2 (of 2) : $b comprising Greece and her colonies, Epirus, Macedonia, Illyricum, Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the north of Africa, etc.
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
Ethnology; Geography, Ancient; History, Ancient
The circumference of the walls of Servius Tullius thus contained ten
gates. Some of them derived their names from the hills; the Collina from
the Collis Quirinalis, which was pre-eminently called _the_ Collis, the
Capena probably owed its name to the fact of its leading to Capua, or to
the _lucus Capenas_, the grove of the Camenae; the Naevia to the Silva
Naevia, the Carmentalis to a sanctuary of Carmentis in the neighbourhood,
the Raudusculana to the fact of its being covered with brass, and the
Flumentana to the river.
The larger circumference of the wall of Aurelian extended as far as the
banks of the Tiber, where now no wall exists, because the Borgo and the
Castel Angelo are united with the city. On the left bank the foundations
of the wall are still the same, though the walls themselves have at
different times been entirely restored. Not a stone of the ancient wall
now remains, and if there should be any, they belong to the restoration
of Honorius. Totilas demolished the greater part of it; afterwards it was
repeatedly destroyed and restored again.[15]
The gates of the wall of Aurelian were called after the streets from
which they led. In former times a large road led from the Porta Collina
northward, and branched off into two, the _Via Salaria_ and the _Via
Nomentana_; the Via Tiburtina, afterwards called _Valeria_, issued from
the Porta Viminalis; and another issued from the Porta Esquilina, which
branched off into the _Via Praenestina_ and the _Via Labicana_. The _Via
Appia_ and _Via Latina_ began at the Capena, and a road branching off
from the Appia was called _Campana_.[16] The _Via Ardeatina_ proceeded
from the Porta Raudusculana, while the _Via Ostiensis_ issued from
the Porta Naevia or Trigemina, for these two must have been near each
other. The _Via Portuensis_ was on the other side of the river, and the
_Via Cassia_ ran over the hill; from the bridge _Pons Aelius_, a street
ran close by the mausoleum of Hadrian, which probably bore the name of
_Via Aelia_; but the matter is obscure. The _Via Flaminia_ proceeded
straightway from the Porta Carmentalis to Ariminum.
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