Wanderings in the Roman campagna . the dredging operations which will shortlybe undertaken at iVnzio, to restore Neros harbor toits former state, many objects of value will be broughtto the surface, to give evidence of Neros liberalitytowards his native place. Antium, the head city and chief port of the clan ofthe Volscians, came into conflict with Rome as earlyas the age of Coriolanus. The great earthworks erectedby the natives on the land side, in preparation for theimpending struggle for independence and freedom oftrade whicli was in store for them, are still consist of a ditch
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . the dredging operations which will shortlybe undertaken at iVnzio, to restore Neros harbor toits former state, many objects of value will be broughtto the surface, to give evidence of Neros liberalitytowards his native place. Antium, the head city and chief port of the clan ofthe Volscians, came into conflict with Rome as earlyas the age of Coriolanus. The great earthworks erectedby the natives on the land side, in preparation for theimpending struggle for independence and freedom oftrade whicli was in store for them, are still consist of a ditch or artificial valley feet wide,50 feet deep, and nearly two miles long, which furnishedmaterial for an emljankment on the inner side, withflanking walls of stone in the neighborhood of the view from the top of this embankment, at itshighest point near the Lanuvine gate, extends over landand sea as far as the Alban and Volscian mountains tothe east, and the promontory of Circe and the island of THE LAND OF NERO 339. The great earthworks raised by the Volscians for the defence of Antium on the land side Pontia to the south and west. Similar earthworks havebeen described at Satricum (Le Ferriere di Conca), atArdea, and in Rome itseh, where the /b^.s-a and the aggerof Servius Tullius made the city impregnal^le at themost dangerous part of its defensive lines. The arti-ficial olen encircling Antium, now overgrown withclusters of myrtle, tamarisk, and genista, affords asenticing a walk as the student of prehistoric civiliza-tion could wish to find along this coast. The knollswhich rise on the right of the path have been the sceneof many a gallant struggle, but the Volscians, beingphysically at least an inferior race, were doomed tosuccumb. Antium was captured by Camillus and Nepos in 337 b. c, and the rostra of their shipswere hung in the Forum. After a period of depopulation of nearly three cen-turies, the mildness of its climate, the beauty of its 340 WAND
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