Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

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great part of which are standing at this time, and with the high arches, the beautiful and stately pillars, the abundance of foreign marble,

agnitude were built: several of them were cut through the mountains, and all other impediments for about forty miles together, and of such a height that a man on horseback might ride through them without the least difficulty. But this is meant

ough the seven hills upon which Rome stood, making the city hang, as

. Sometimes in a flood, the waters of the Tiber opposed them in their course, and the two streams encountered each other with great fury: yet the works preserved their old strength, without any sensible da

from the city on all sides; they were generally paved with flint, tho

les: it was twelve feet broad, made of huge stones, most of them blue. Its strength was so great, that afte