. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ngs. The walls of the Romans were generally made of , however, some remains of the oldest fortifications ofRome have been dis-covered which are builtof freestone in the Greekmanner. On the AventineHill, for instance, may betraced for a considerabledistance the line of a free-stone wall, which undoubt-edly belongs to the so-called fortifications of Ser-vius. It lies on the top of a large earth-wall {agger), which isexpressly mentioned amongst those fortifications, and it contains,like the walls of the Greeks, projections for the purpose of def
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ngs. The walls of the Romans were generally made of , however, some remains of the oldest fortifications ofRome have been dis-covered which are builtof freestone in the Greekmanner. On the AventineHill, for instance, may betraced for a considerabledistance the line of a free-stone wall, which undoubt-edly belongs to the so-called fortifications of Ser-vius. It lies on the top of a large earth-wall {agger), which isexpressly mentioned amongst those fortifications, and it contains,like the walls of the Greeks, projections for the purpose of defence ;the arches placed at intervals for the sake of increasing thefirmness of the layers of stones are thoroughly Italian in cha-racter. Of a similar kind are the substruction-walls which havebeen recently found on the Palatine Hill, forming, most likely,the original fortification of that hill (see Fig. 348). In later times, as we mentioned before, brick was used infortifications. Vitruvius states, that first of all masses of earth. 332 TOWN-WALLS OF POMPEII.
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