[The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire CHAPTER XLI: Conquests Of Justinian, Charact Of Balisarius 5/27
3) has forgot to name these aqueducts nor can such a double intersection, at such a distance from Rome, be clearly ascertained from the writings of Frontinus, Fabretti, and Eschinard, de Aquis and de Agro Romano, or from the local maps of Lameti and Cingolani.
Seven or eight miles from the city, (50 stadia,) on the road to Albano, between the Latin and Appian ways, I discern the remains of an aqueduct, (probably the Septimian,) a series (630 paces) of arches twenty-five feet high.] [Footnote 88: They made sausages of mule's flesh; unwholesome, if the animals had died of the plague.
Otherwise, the famous Bologna sausages are said to be made of ass flesh, (Voyages de Labat, tom.ii.p.
218.)] [Footnote 89: The name of the palace, the hill, and the adjoining gate, were all derived from the senator Pincius.
Some recent vestiges of temples and churches are now smoothed in the garden of the Minims of the Trinita del Monte, (Nardini, l.iv.c.7, p.196.Eschinard, p.
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