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II.—Architectural Features of the City of Ardea
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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The original City or fortress of Ardea was built upon a rock on the coast of the Mediterranean, although the sea has receded so much in that part that it is now three miles off. This is equally the case at Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber, which is not many miles from Ardea. It is extremely probable that this was among the earliest settlements of the Greeks in that part of Italy, which afterwards came to be called Magna Graecia, although many modern critics will not allow this. According to my ideas, in all these cases of early settlements the walls themselves afford better evidence than anything that has been written about them, because these settlements were made and the walls were built centuries before the use of writing. The comparison of a score of examples of existing remains therefore tells more of true history than any verbal criticism can do.
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page 171 note a The use of mortar also indicates a comparatively late date.
page 174 note a For the various readings of this passage see Smith's Diets. Gr. and Rom. Geogr. “Ardea,” and Biogr. “Ludius.”
page 175 note a Plinii Nat. Hist. iii. 9.
page 175 note b Livy, Hist. xxi. 7.
page 176 note a Livii Hist. 1. 57.
page 176 note b Livii Hist. v. 43.
page 176 note c Ibid. xxvii. 9.
page 176 note d Ibid. xxix. 15.
page 176 note e Ibid. xxxix. 19.
page 176 note f Strabo lib. v.
page 176 note g Epist. 105.
page 176 note h Martialis Ep. iv. 60.
page 176 note i Vide Frontinus de Coloniis.
page 177 note a “Medietatem castelli Avdeæ cum rocca sua et turre majore cum omnibus suis pertinentiis.” Constit. Greg. VII.
page 177 note b Codd. Vat. 7997.
page 178 note a Nicolas Ratti, Storia di Genzano, nella stamperia—Salomoni, MDCCXCVII., in No. 5 of the Documents belonging to that anti-pope.
page 178 note b Antiq. i. 377; et in Novis, iv. 60.
page 178 note c Bulla Martini V. in Antiq. ii. Officior. 44; in Nov. vii. 68.
page 178 note d Gori, Archivio Storico, vol. ii. fasc. 1, pp. 99–109.
page 179 note a Virgilii Aeneid. l. vii.
page 179 note b Roma Autica, vol. vi. pl. vi.