Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . of the gate corresponds withthat of the aqueduct, but the latter is encumberedwith rubbish, and therefore appears very low, whilstthe gate is built on the rubbish itself. As the in-scription on it appeared on several of the othergates, we shall here insert it: Impp. invktissimis principibm Arcadia et Uonoriovictoribus et triumphatoribus semper Angg. ob iii-stauratos urbis aeternae muros portas ac turresegestis iminensis ruderibtis ex suggestione etinlustris comitis et magistri utriusque militiae ad perpetuitaiem nomi
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . of the gate corresponds withthat of the aqueduct, but the latter is encumberedwith rubbish, and therefore appears very low, whilstthe gate is built on the rubbish itself. As the in-scription on it appeared on several of the othergates, we shall here insert it: Impp. invktissimis principibm Arcadia et Uonoriovictoribus et triumphatoribus semper Angg. ob iii-stauratos urbis aeternae muros portas ac turresegestis iminensis ruderibtis ex suggestione etinlustris comitis et magistri utriusque militiae ad perpetuitaiem nominis eorum simu-lacra constittut curante Fl. Macrobio Praef. Urbi D. N. M. Q. eorum. In likemaimer the magnificent double arch of the AquaClaudia and Anio Novus, which flow over it, wasconverted into the Porta Praenestina (Maggiore).The right arch, from the city side, is walled up,and concealed on the outside by the Honorian beyond the gate is the curious tomb of?Eurysaces, the baker, sculptured with the instru-. OJ lOj ff O |^nv^^^.^|,^ol^lM^^l3^?^lJloI:^ll;l^:lA^li^^;?l3Jlo^3v • \3:>nm. ^. TOJIB OF EURYSACES ROMA. ments of his trade, which was brought to light in1838, by the pulling down of a tower wliich hadbeen built over it in the middle ages. Over tlieclosed Honorian arch was the same inscription asover the Porta Tiburtina. On the aqueduct arethree inscriptions, which name Claudius as itsbuilder, and Vespasian and Titus as its gate liad several names in the middle ages. Hence the wall follows for some distance the lineof the Aqua Claudia, till it reaches its easternmostpoint; when, turning to the S. and W., and em-bracing the curve of what is commonly called theAmphitheatrum Castrense, it reaches the ancientPorta Asinauia, now replaced by the Porta dl , built a little to the E. of it in 1574, byPope Gregory XHI. It derived its name fromspanning the Via Asinaria (Festus, p. 282, Miill.),and is frequently mentioned by Proc
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