Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

F'err ar a, Ravenna, Rimini. 95
Hid in the winding Vales they gently
glide,
And Italy from neighb’ring Gaul divide ;
But how, with Winter Storms encreas’d,
they rose,
By wat’ry Moons produc’d, and Alpine
Snows,
That melting on the hoaryMountains lay,
And in warm Eastern Winds dissblv’d
away.
This River is’now called Pifatello.
Rimini has nothing modern to boastof.
Its Antiquities are as follow : A Marble
Bridge of Five Arches, built by Auguflus
and Tiberius, for the Inscription is still
legible, tho’ not rightly transcrib’d by
Gruter. A Triumphal Arch raised by Au-
gustus, which makes a Noble Gate to the
Town, tho’ part of it is ruined. The
Ruins of an Amphitheater. The Sug-
gejium, on which it is said that Julius
C<efar harangued his Army after having
palTed the Rubicon. 1 mutt confess I can
by no means look on thislast as Authen-
tick: It is built of hewn Stone, like the
Pedcstal of a Pillar, but something high-
er than ordinary, and is but just broad
enough for one Man to stand upon it.
On the contrary, the ancient Sugge-
(tums, as 1 have often observed on Me-
dals,