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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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a Mar/giwe.)Here the Via Prsenestiua diverged from the Labicana; andClaudius, who was obliged to convey two new streams—the AquaClaudia and the Anio Novus—over these roads, erected for this pur-pose a massive gateway, which sjjanned both roads at once witli adouble arch. This is the splendid moiumient afterwards taken intothe Aurelian Wall, in the time of Honorius and Arcadius, and con- RAMBLES IX THE CAMPAGXA. 325 verted, by the erection of a mouud iu front, into a kind of bulwark.It now forms one of the city gates, under the name of the PortaMaggiore. In each of tlie tlu-ee piers supporting the attics with the channelsconcealed in the interior is a small gateway, over which a window,with a gable roof resting on rustic pillars, is introduced. By thisarrangement, not only is a saving of materials effected, but the six >T?^Tg--?g3i TJ5J(r,TTTtlAP0TESTJ.fEXnCDS^/ ff-FTPAtORXKvi.f.ATj;,:^^ATEJ ^ rT=^_^-^.-^^^-.C;VAC^n~ri7TT f*Tir^T:;i.LEA^ljC>D;LT-i iDP.OCJ-iVCiQLTFOJiJ^S Tyit-
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construction arches thus acquired impart a greater degree of stabilityto the structure. The tirst inscrij^tion un the aqueduct uf Claudius mentions thestreams conveyed into the city by the emperor ujion these arches.From it we learn that the water in the channel which bore his namewas taken from two sources,—the Cieruleus and the Curtius, forty-fivemiles otf; and that the Auio Novus, which flows above the AquaClaudia, was brought hither from a distance of sixty-two miles. Thesecond inscription relates to the restorations of Vespasian; the thirdto those of Titus. This gateway is the earliest specimen of the rustic style. It was 326 RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGKA, named, by those going out, by wliicli arch they passed through on theirway either to Labicum or to Prseneste. Coming in, they called it bythe hill to which they were going. After I liad said that he enteredby the Coelimontane Gate, like a man of mettle he offered to lay awager with me that he entered at the Esquiline Gate (Cicero v

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