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Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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acent an inmateof all handbooks, but there is no doubt in mymind that this arched passage is a work of theRoman Empire. I have yet to see a single arcadesurely constructed before Augustus with vous-soirs interpenetrating the body of the masonrysuch as are here used. The general i-ule forEtruria, for Rome and for Latium in the pre-Augustan age was that the masonry should becut so as to fit on to the perfect curve of thevoussoirs, of which there was often a double andeven a triple line. There is, however, one bridge at least, atBieda (Blera), which can be set beside the one Etruscan cities; and that these houses of three to six stories highnaust have followed quite a different tj-pe. In this Etruria doesnot help us. We must go to the South and across sea. Phoeni-cian cities such as Motva in Sicilr, where excavations are evennow being carried on, showed the Romans how to build suchlofty houses. That they were generally built poorly and for spec-ulative purposes, seems generally conceded.
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