. The life of the Greeks and Romans. scription saysthat the same emperor conducted the Anio Nova to Eome from adistance of sixty-two Roman miles. The third inscriptionmentions Yespasian and Titus as the restorers of the giganticbuilding of Claudius. More frequent than two, are three gate-openings, of which thecentre one is usually wider and higher than the two others: theformer being destined for horses and carriages, the latter for foot-passengers. The two purposes of defence and traffic are beauti-fully combined in a gate belonging to the fortifications of Aosta. z 2 340 GATE OF AO ST A. bui
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. scription saysthat the same emperor conducted the Anio Nova to Eome from adistance of sixty-two Roman miles. The third inscriptionmentions Yespasian and Titus as the restorers of the giganticbuilding of Claudius. More frequent than two, are three gate-openings, of which thecentre one is usually wider and higher than the two others: theformer being destined for horses and carriages, the latter for foot-passengers. The two purposes of defence and traffic are beauti-fully combined in a gate belonging to the fortifications of Aosta. z 2 340 GATE OF AO ST A. built by Augustus (see view, Fig. 358, and plan, Fig. 359). Thewall to which the gate belongs differs essentially from those ofPompeii, the interval between the lower and outer (Fig. 359, a),and the higher and inner, wall-facings (B) being not filled up withearth, but left empty. The connection between the two wall-facings is effected by means of arches. This interval is thustransformed into a number of small vaulted chambers (C) which. Fig. 360. open towards the town, and thus somewhat resemble the innerdivisions of the Aurelian walls. Two towers (D D), enclosing theouter gate (F), project from this double wall. The gate showsthe just-mentioned division into three openings, all of which couldbe closed by strong portcullis. After this gate follows an openspace (H), called by Yegetius propugnaculum, because here thebesiegers that might have advanced so far could be attacked fromthe platforms of the low towers. On the opposite side of thisspace lies the inner gate (G), the three openings of which were ROMAN ROADS. 34 closed by doors studded with iron. The architecture is dignifiedand even severe in style, and this work of Augustus may becounted amongst the finest of its class. A similar though less fortified structure we see in one of thegates of Pompeii, called, from the direction of the road passingthrough it, the Herculanean gate (see the outer view of it, , from the conje
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