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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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INIontenegro,and surrounding them with fortifications. Histroops had only recently reconquered Dalmatia,and he was still enthusiastic to carry out Caesarsscheme for making this region the starting-pointfor the concerted advance on the valley of theDanube. I shall describe what is left of threeof the most important of these colonies, nowrepresented by the modern cities of Trieste,Pola, and Zara. Ancient Tergeste is now the modern busy sea-port of Trieste, main outlet of the Austrian em-pire on the Adriatic, seat of the Austrian LloydSteamship Company. It is so absolutely mod-ern that it seems almost hopeless to attempt totrace any of its Roman life. And yet what wedo find that is ancient is peculiarly precious, be-cause so much of it dates from the time of thefoundation by Augustus. It is possible thatTergeste was colonized as early as 41 b.c.^ whenthe great distributions of land to veterans afterPhilippi took place; but the city walls came afew years later. What their date was appears
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Trieste, Arco di Riccardo, Gate of Roman Tergeste (Early Augustan age) Plate XLV ^Ry Ns ROMAN CITIES 285 from an inscription, part of which is preservedin the Lapidary Museum, reading: imp. caesar COS. DESIG. TERT^ III. VIR. R. I. C. ITER. MVRVM TVRRESQVE FECIT. This statement, on one ofthe early city gates, shows that the walls, towers,and gates were built by Augustus and completedat the close of his Second Consulship, after hehad been nominated for a third term. This givesthe date 32 b.c.^ making it, I believe, the earliestdated civic Augustan inscription. What has be-come of these gates and walls? Even the loca-tion of the two main gateways—Praetoria andDecumana—is unknown. They were probablypierced with two or three arcades, as in otherAugustan cities of medium or small size. But I believe I have identified one of theminor Augustan gates, one of the outlets of theCardo, the main cross street, in the so-calledArco di Riccardo, which still stands on the de-scending slope facing

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