. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . barren Campagna had been transformed into a habitable andfertile district. Later, owing to ravage caused by the constantmigration of the nations, it was no longer possible to give to theland the care it required, and the broad plain relapsed into idnormal state of desolation. Excavations up to the present dayjhave, however, demonstrated that at almost any point in thiswilderness remains can be found of former human industry ancof buildings which once existed, whether in the form of walls by Benedict XIV. in 1741 for the correction of the Bre
. History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages . barren Campagna had been transformed into a habitable andfertile district. Later, owing to ravage caused by the constantmigration of the nations, it was no longer possible to give to theland the care it required, and the broad plain relapsed into idnormal state of desolation. Excavations up to the present dayjhave, however, demonstrated that at almost any point in thiswilderness remains can be found of former human industry ancof buildings which once existed, whether in the form of walls by Benedict XIV. in 1741 for the correction of the Breviary, demanded the suppressionof the lessons for the Feast of St. Silvester and for that of the Dedication of the Lateran!Batiffol, Jiistoire dn brdviaire, 2e ed., p. 310, 311, from the Analecta inris ftoiitijicii, 21(1885), 644 ft., 892 ff., and the Acts of the Congregation in the Roman Bibliot. Corsinianacod. 361 to 363. 1 Inscription of the Cavenses in the Corp. inscr. XIV., No. 2228. MoMMSEtfjliullett. delP instit. arckeoL, 1861, p. r v < Q ° 2 & s S3 No. 127] THE AQUEDUCTS 179 drains, and paved roads, or of marble fragments and statuaryfrom the patrician villas. As seen from the Janiculus, the Roman military roads,stretching on all sides across the plain, and bordered by sepulchralmonuments, must have presented a rare spectacle. They invitedj the sightseers fancy to follow their course to far-distant lands,and to realise the dominating power of that unique city, beforewhich all nations bowed. This network of roads was intersected by numerous andsometimes lofty aqueducts, the majesty of which we can evennow picture to ourselves by viewing theirmelancholy ruins. They were particularlynumerous in the high ground to the south-east of Rome, most of them hailing frommountains lying in that same direction. (in. 37. y 127. These Aqueducts, another of the Wonders of Rome, were structures built of peperino or brick, in series of lofty arches, above which the water f
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