Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . p. 379.)We have already remarked that there is no groundfor Niebuhrs assumption respecting the existencehere of an Etruscan city called Vatica or Vaticum[see p. 724]. This district belonged still less thanthe Janiculum to the city, and was not even includedin the walls of Aurelian. It was noted for its un-healthy air (Tac. //. ii. 93), its unfruitful soil(Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 35), and its execrable wine.( Vaticana bibis, bibis venenum, Mart. vi. 92. 93;cf. X. 45.) In the Republican times the story sobeautifully told by Livy (iii. 26) of the great dic-
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . p. 379.)We have already remarked that there is no groundfor Niebuhrs assumption respecting the existencehere of an Etruscan city called Vatica or Vaticum[see p. 724]. This district belonged still less thanthe Janiculum to the city, and was not even includedin the walls of Aurelian. It was noted for its un-healthy air (Tac. //. ii. 93), its unfruitful soil(Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 35), and its execrable wine.( Vaticana bibis, bibis venenum, Mart. vi. 92. 93;cf. X. 45.) In the Republican times the story sobeautifully told by Livy (iii. 26) of the great dic-tator L. Quinctius Cincinnatus who was saluteddictator here whilst cultivating his farm of fouracres, the Prata Quinctia, lends the only interestto the scene, whether it may belong to the romanceof history or not. There were no buildings in thisquarter before the time of the emperors, and almostthe only one of any note in all antiquity was asepulchre—the Mausoleum or Moles Hadrlvni,now the Castello di S. Angela. (Dion Cass. Ixix. 23;. MOLE OF HADRIAN RESTORED. Spart. Hadr. 19.) Among the ancient notices of itthe most important is that of Procopius. (J5. 22. p. 106. ed. Bonn.) A complete history ofit is given by Bunsen (Beschr. vol. ii. p. 404, seq.),and descriptions will be found in all the mausoleum was the tomb of the following emperors and their families, certainly till the timeof Conimodus, and perhaps till that of Caracalla ( Handb. note 1430). It was built in theHorti Domitiae (Capitol. Ant. P. 5),if we are tounderstand the word collocavil in that passage ofan actual entombment, and not of a lying-in-state ROMA, These gardens of the Domitian family are frequentlymentioned in inscriptions; and those who are curiousrespecting their history will find a long account ofthem in Prellers Reyionen (p. 207, seq.). Theyappear to have existed under the same name in thetime of Aurelian. (Vopisc. Aurel. 49.) In thesame district were also the Horti A
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