Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . V OJ o Plate xLi ROMAN CITIES 243 Aside from remains of a theater attributed tothe Antonines, its Roman antiquities have dis-appeared, though there is little doubt that exca-vations would uncover the earliest military bul-wark of the extreme Aosta, Porta Praetoria, restored (Promis) Verona Passing eastward from Aosta and Ivrea acrossthe base of the Italian lakes, around and abovewhich were the nests of many unsubdued tribesin early Augustan times; leaving behind usMediolanum (Milan), capital of the region ofthe Insubres, Ticinum (Pavia), as well as
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . V OJ o Plate xLi ROMAN CITIES 243 Aside from remains of a theater attributed tothe Antonines, its Roman antiquities have dis-appeared, though there is little doubt that exca-vations would uncover the earliest military bul-wark of the extreme Aosta, Porta Praetoria, restored (Promis) Verona Passing eastward from Aosta and Ivrea acrossthe base of the Italian lakes, around and abovewhich were the nests of many unsubdued tribesin early Augustan times; leaving behind usMediolanum (Milan), capital of the region ofthe Insubres, Ticinum (Pavia), as well as thefortress-cities of Placentia (Piacenza), andCremona, we reach the 023ening of the next greatAlpine jDass at Verona. Of the ancient Milan solittle remains that it tells no story. There islittle more of Pavia, hardly more than the knowl-edge that it was laid out on the scheme of theRoman city-camj^, so much better illustrated inAosta and Turin, and that it had an honoraryarch to Augustus and his whole family, erectedto commemorate the successful issue of the Dal-matian-Illyrian war of 9-7 Of RomanPlacentia and Cremona, great cities and earliestbulwarks on the Po of Republican Rome, thereis nothing to be said. So we come to Verona aspractically the only city in the north w
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