History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians (1883) (14780133375)

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Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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is page andthe following were found, the one in the circus of Maxentius, near Rome, the other at thevilla of the Gordians, on the Praenestine Way. Some learned critics see in them, in spite ofthe numerous restorations to which they have been subjected, the expressions of two differentphases of art, the one Greek, the other more Roman. Von Duhn says (Ann. dell Institute di< orresp. archeol. li. 189) : Ciascv.no . . . polra a cnlpo il occhio ravvisare la differenza tra laforza e natwalezza greca e I eleganza ed artificiosith del lavoro romano. - Canina, Ann. dell Instit., 1837, p. 62, and Dennis, Etruria, i. 204-210. As regards theprosperity of Etruria under the Empire, see chapter lxv. ad finem. In the Roman Campagnathe cultivator was not everywhere driven away from these fruitful plains by the malaria, whichwas still here and there kept down by the system of underground drainage which the earlyinhabitants had organized. The mephitic atmosphere of this region is caused by the numer-
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TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT ANCONA. THE PROVINCES. L39 to the Danube, what was there apart from the Flaminian andAppian Ways ? Every day desolation was extending. For onecity prospering, how many were there on the decline ? Capua,Otriculuin, Tuder, Rimini, Bologna, Verona, and Pola, did indeed