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6 SANTA MARINELLA. [chap. xxxi.
unattractive, more bleak, dreary, and desolate; and to one
just making an acquaintance with that land of famed ferti-
lity and beauty, as so many do at Civita Vecehia, nothing
can be more disappointing. Moreover, it is the road to
Rome, and is therefore to be hurried over with all possible
speed of diligence or vettura. Yet are there spots on this
road full of interest, both for their history, associated with
that of Rome, and for the relics they yet contain of the
past; and the traveller whose curiosity has been some-
what allayed, and who can look from the Imperial City to
objects around her, will find along this desert sandy shore,
or among the low bleak hills inland, sites where he may
linger many a deHghtful hour in contemplation of "the
wrecks of days departed."
Two miles and a half from Civita Vecchia, by the road-
side, near a tower called Prima Torre, are two large
barrows, which, from a slight excavation a few years since,
are thought to give promise of valuable sepulchral furniture.
About five miles from Civita Vecchia, the solitary tower
of Chiaruccia marks the site of Castrum Novum, a Roman
station on the Via Aurelia. All we know of it is that it
was a colony1 on this coast,2 and that, with other neigh-
bouring colonies, it reluctantly furnished its quota to the
fleet which was despatched in the year 563 (b.c. 191)3
1 Liv. XXXVI. 3; Plin. III. 8; Ptol. mention of an ancient figure of Imius
Geog. p. 68, ed. Bert. over a gate at Castrum on this coast,
2 Mela. II. 4. that the god may have been worshipped
3 Liv. loc. cit The Castrum Inui of at hoth sites. Inuus was a pastoral deity,
Virgil {Ma. VI. 776), which was on the equivalent to Pan, or Faunus, says Ser-
coast of Latium, seems to have been vius. Holstenius(Annot.adCluverp.35)
confounded by Servius (ad loc.) and by and Mannert (Geog. p. 375) took Sta
Rutilius (I. 232) with this Castrum Marinella for Castrum Novum, though
Novum in Etruria—the former a place Cluver (II. p. 488) had previously indi-
of great antiquity, the latter probably cated the ruins at Torre di Chiaruccia
only of Roman times. But Mttller to be the site—an opinion which is now
(Etrusk. III. 3, 7) thinks from Rutilius' universally admitted to be correct.
unattractive, more bleak, dreary, and desolate; and to one
just making an acquaintance with that land of famed ferti-
lity and beauty, as so many do at Civita Vecehia, nothing
can be more disappointing. Moreover, it is the road to
Rome, and is therefore to be hurried over with all possible
speed of diligence or vettura. Yet are there spots on this
road full of interest, both for their history, associated with
that of Rome, and for the relics they yet contain of the
past; and the traveller whose curiosity has been some-
what allayed, and who can look from the Imperial City to
objects around her, will find along this desert sandy shore,
or among the low bleak hills inland, sites where he may
linger many a deHghtful hour in contemplation of "the
wrecks of days departed."
Two miles and a half from Civita Vecchia, by the road-
side, near a tower called Prima Torre, are two large
barrows, which, from a slight excavation a few years since,
are thought to give promise of valuable sepulchral furniture.
About five miles from Civita Vecchia, the solitary tower
of Chiaruccia marks the site of Castrum Novum, a Roman
station on the Via Aurelia. All we know of it is that it
was a colony1 on this coast,2 and that, with other neigh-
bouring colonies, it reluctantly furnished its quota to the
fleet which was despatched in the year 563 (b.c. 191)3
1 Liv. XXXVI. 3; Plin. III. 8; Ptol. mention of an ancient figure of Imius
Geog. p. 68, ed. Bert. over a gate at Castrum on this coast,
2 Mela. II. 4. that the god may have been worshipped
3 Liv. loc. cit The Castrum Inui of at hoth sites. Inuus was a pastoral deity,
Virgil {Ma. VI. 776), which was on the equivalent to Pan, or Faunus, says Ser-
coast of Latium, seems to have been vius. Holstenius(Annot.adCluverp.35)
confounded by Servius (ad loc.) and by and Mannert (Geog. p. 375) took Sta
Rutilius (I. 232) with this Castrum Marinella for Castrum Novum, though
Novum in Etruria—the former a place Cluver (II. p. 488) had previously indi-
of great antiquity, the latter probably cated the ruins at Torre di Chiaruccia
only of Roman times. But Mttller to be the site—an opinion which is now
(Etrusk. III. 3, 7) thinks from Rutilius' universally admitted to be correct.