. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. s Romans had fine houses here, particularly Mamurra, AnniusVeras the grandfather of Marcus Aurelius, and the Laterani, whosehouse appears to have been confiscated after the treason of PlautiusLateranus in Xeros reign. X. Tlie District S. of the Cxlian.—To the S. of the Cfelian were the-1st and 12th regions of Augustus^ named Por^a Ccqiena and PiscinaFvMica. In the former of these lay the Porta Capena itself theValley of Egeria,^ watered by the small stream Almo,^ and the tradi-tional scene of X
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. s Romans had fine houses here, particularly Mamurra, AnniusVeras the grandfather of Marcus Aurelius, and the Laterani, whosehouse appears to have been confiscated after the treason of PlautiusLateranus in Xeros reign. X. Tlie District S. of the Cxlian.—To the S. of the Cfelian were the-1st and 12th regions of Augustus^ named Por^a Ccqiena and PiscinaFvMica. In the former of these lay the Porta Capena itself theValley of Egeria,^ watered by the small stream Almo,^ and the tradi-tional scene of Xumas interviews with the nymph ; and the ThermaeAntonianse or Caracallse, on the right of the Appian Way, remains ofwhich are still in existence. For several miles the tombs of eminentRomans skirt the Via Appia, commencing immediately outside the The most interesting of these is the Tomb of tie Scipios, about40u paces within the P. S. Sehastiano; while the mausoleum of Septi-mius Severus and that of Caecilia Metella deserve notice, though thelatter lies beyond the limits of the Tomb of Ctecilia ^letelia. XI. TJie Escj^uihne and its Xeiglihourhood.—The Esquiline was ori-ginally covered with a thick wood, to which its name may be the larger and more southerly of the two tongues into which the 1 A branch of the Aqua Murcia passed over this gate, and kept it in a drippingstate : — Substitit ad yeteres arcus, madidamque Capenam.—Jrv. iii. grandi porta, qua pluit gutta. Mart, iii. 47. 2 In vallem Egeri-ae descendinius et speluncasDissimiles veris. Jvv. iii. 17. 3 The waters of this stream were sacred to Cybele :— Et parvo lotam revocant Ahiione Cybebem. Lvc. i. 600. 546 . LATIUM. Book IV. hill is divided, viz. Mons Oppius, was situated the district namedCarinae; extending down from the extremity of the hill into the sub-jacent vaneys. In the valley between this and the Cselian lay thegio-antic Amphitheatrum Flavium, more commonly known
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