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Excerpt from Rome, Vol. 1: As It Was Under Paganism, and as It Became Under the Popes ON the banks of the Tiber, and in the midst of a vast solitude strewed with the ruins of aqueducts and tombs, there is a region, of about twelve miles' circuit, encompassed by walls that are obviously done with sieges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.