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Here as elsewhere not only each city but each territory was marked out by a ditch and consecrated by the priesthood, — ^a gen- eral Italic custom. Where the highway entered the territory it was often defended by a fortress. I found these unique and primitive polygonal blockhouses on the border lines between Priver- num and Setia, between Setia and Norba and be- tween Cora and Norba. I do not believe they have ever been noticed or at least recognized as forts.* ^They can be traced ebewfaere, how...ever. Near Amitemiim is a pTdopean wall nearly forty feet high connected witii the Digitized by VjOOQIC ROMAN CITIES 79 In the plain^ other blockhouses defended the approaches to the hillside, like that below Norba, just above the station. It was outside the walls, along the hillside, that line upon line of farm- houses supported by the retaining walls I have mentioned were built; and to each citizen was probably assigned a lot on the Pontine plain below, from which came all the agricultural wealth of the community.
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