Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Detail of Ficoroni Cista, from Praeneste (Woltman)Plate 11. ROMAN CITIES 13 nings, illustrating during all this time the actionof the influences of the Orient, of Greece, and ofEtruria within the purely Latin sphere. Forany one who is willing to abjure the poetry-destroying railway and to get his local flavor withleisurely progress, along the antique way, theeasiest road is the Labicana, but the most inter-esting is the ancient Via Praenestina itself, whichis parallel, farther north, even though by takingit one gives up the chance to pass the site of LakeRe
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . Detail of Ficoroni Cista, from Praeneste (Woltman)Plate 11. ROMAN CITIES 13 nings, illustrating during all this time the actionof the influences of the Orient, of Greece, and ofEtruria within the purely Latin sphere. Forany one who is willing to abjure the poetry-destroying railway and to get his local flavor withleisurely progress, along the antique way, theeasiest road is the Labicana, but the most inter-esting is the ancient Via Praenestina itself, whichis parallel, farther north, even though by takingit one gives up the chance to pass the site of LakeRegillus, where the Romans in 497 recoveredtheir freedom by defeating the Latin forces thathad sided with the Tarquins. The Via Praenestina starts due east from PortaMaggiore, that most spectacular of the works byearly imperial engineers remaining in the one mile out is the Torraccio, among thelargest of the early circular mausoleums, with adiameter of one hundred forty-tw^o and one halffeet, attributed to the last century of the Repub-lic. Shortly after passing the stream of Aqua
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