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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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whole of that district, which formed the first Regio of Augustus.

It is hoped that this Abridgment will open the eyes of many English students to the delusion by which they have been blinded, and will convince them that the early history of Rome, which for the last half-century has been considered as fabulous only, is the true history. There is no other manner of explaining the remains now brought to light by the excavations; even the measurements of important objects were found to agree exactly with the legendary history preserved by Dionysius and Livy.

JOHN HENRY Parker, C.В.

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD,
October, 1881.

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LIST OF PLATES

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CHAPTER I. OF THE MATERIALS USED IN BUILDING AT ROME, AND OF THE VARIOUS STYLES OF CONSTRUCTION.

PLATE

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Referred to in the text at

1. Opus Quadratum. -Squared Work, A. U.C. 3, B.C. 750 II. Opus Incertum. Irregular Work, A.U.C. 558, в.с. 195 II. III. Opus Reticulatum. -Reticulated, or Net-work, A.U.C.

725, B. C. 28 to A.D. 118

IV. Opus Lateritium.-Brickwork, A.U.C. 810, A. D. 57

CHAPTER II. - ROMA QUADRATA.

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IV.

1. Roma Quadrata. -Plan of the Surface and the Sides
Details of the Sides of the Primitive City
Details of the Great Foss

III.

Bath-chambers of Livia, made in that Foss

IV.

Section of it, at the West End

V.

CHAPTER III. -THE CITY ON THE TWO HILLS.
Plan of the City on the Two Hills

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1. Tower of the same in the Forum of Augustus
II. Part of the Second Wall of Rome, with remains of
a Gateway (afterwards in the Forum of Nerva, with
the figure of Pallas over it)

VII. III. Cloaca Maxima, the part visible in the Forum Romanum
Iv. Pulchrum Littus, and exit of the River Almo into the
Tiber (near the Forum Boarium)

CHAPTERS IV. AND V. - THE FORTIFICATIONS ON THE OTHER FIV HILLS AND ON THE HEIGHTS ADJACENT. THE CITY ON TH SEVEN HILLS WITHIN ONE ENCLOSURE.

VIII.

1. Wall of the Latins on the Aventine

II. Muro-Torto, at the N. E. corner of the Wall of Rome

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1. Porta Capena, in the Wall of Servius Tullius, Exterior
of the lower part of the Western Tower of the Gate,
with the Excavations of 1868

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Interior of the same Tower, with the Aque

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duct passing through it X. III. Porta Capena-A. Part of the Aqueduct, near the Gate 53 B. Section of the Eastern Tower of that Gate C. Part of the Arcade of the Aqueduct, and

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of the crepido, or footpath of the Via Appia
IV. Rampart of Servius Tullius, on the Viminal (near the
Railway Station)

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XI.

v. Part of the Agger or Rampart, and Wall of Servius Tullius (in the Exquiliæ), near the Porta Tiburtina. 51

VI. Plan and Section of the Horn-work at the north end of
the Rampart-the north-east corner of Rome (on
which the House of Sallust was built)

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CHAPTER VI. THE AGGER OF TARQUINIUS THE SECOND.
LATER FORTIFICATIONS.

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1. Part of the Wall of Tarquinius II., between the Præ-
torian Camp and the Porta Tiburtina. General
View in 1880

II. Section of the same part of the Wall and Rampart

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XIII.

CHAPTER VII. -THE WALLS OF AURELIAN AND HONORIUS.

I. PORTA MAGGIORE (Prænestina, Labicana, Esquilina,

Sessoriana)

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II. Porta Asinaria (of the Asinii)
XIV. III. Porta Appia (or di S. Sebastiano)
IV. Wall of Aurelian, part of Exterior
XV. v. Corridor (for the Sentinel's path)
VI. Another part of the Corridor of Aurelian

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