13/39 Markland,) Statius undertakes the difficult task of drawing his wife from the pleasures of Rome to that calm retreat.] [Footnote 67: This measure was taken by Roger l., after the conquest of Naples, (A.D. 1139,) which he made the capital of his new kingdom, (Giannone, Istoria Civile, tom.ii.p. 169.) That city, the third in Christian Europe, is now at least twelve miles in circumference, (Jul.Caesar.Capaccii Hist.Neapol.l.i.p. 47,) and contains more inhabitants (350,000) in a given space, than any other spot in the known world.] [Footnote 68: Not geometrical, but common, paces or steps, of 22 French inches, (D' Anville, Mesures Itineraires, p. |