Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ois vir^ Al/xiXiouraiXLiiiovros. (Num. 9.) Still more decisive isthe testimony of Servius : Cum per Subliciumpontem, hoc est ligneum, qui modo lapideus dicitur,transire conaretur (Porsena) (lul Aen. viii. G4G).There must certainly have been a strong and prac-ticable bridge at an early period at this place, forthe heavy traffic occasioned by the neighbourhood ofthe Emporium; but when it was first erected cannotbe said. The words of Plutarch, inr AtixiXiov rafjit-ivovTos, are obscure, and perhaps corrupt; but atall events we must not confound this notice
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ois vir^ Al/xiXiouraiXLiiiovros. (Num. 9.) Still more decisive isthe testimony of Servius : Cum per Subliciumpontem, hoc est ligneum, qui modo lapideus dicitur,transire conaretur (Porsena) (lul Aen. viii. G4G).There must certainly have been a strong and prac-ticable bridge at an early period at this place, forthe heavy traffic occasioned by the neighbourhood ofthe Emporium; but when it was first erected cannotbe said. The words of Plutarch, inr AtixiXiov rafjit-ivovTos, are obscure, and perhaps corrupt; but atall events we must not confound this notice withthat in Livy respecting the building of the PonsAemilius ; the piles of which were laid in the cen-sorship of M. Aemilius Lepidus and M. FulviusNobilior, 179, and the arches completed someyears afterwards, when P. Scipio Africanus and were censors (xl. 51). There is no proofthat the Ponte Potto is the Pons Aemilius; butBecker, in his second view, and Canina assume thatit was; and this view is as probable as any , -WITII TIIK TONS FABRICILS AND PONS CESTIUS. There were several bridges at Rome before tliePons Aemilius was built, since Livy (xxxv. 21)mentions that tivo were carried away by the streamin B. c. 193; and these could hardly have been all,0;- he would undoubtedly have said so. The InsulaTiberina was, in very early times, connected witheach shore by two bridges, and hence obtained thename of Inter Duos Pontes. (Plut. Popl. 8;JIacrob. Sat. ii. 12.) That nearest the city (nowPonls Quattro Capi) was the Pons Fabiiicius, sonamed from its founder, or probably its restorer,VOL. n. L. Fabricius, as appears from the inscription on it,ami from Dion Cassius (xxxvii. 45). It was tliefavourite resort of suicides:— « jussit sapientem pascere barbam Atone a Fabricio non tristem ponte revert i. (Hor. S. ii. 3. 36.) The bridge on the farther side of the island (nowPunte S. Bartohmmeo) is commonly called , and appears to have bo
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