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CHAPTER XXXVI.
PISA.—PISM.
Alpheue veterem contemplor originis urbem
Quani cingunt geminis Arnus et Ausur aquis.
RuTILIUS.
On approaching Leghorn from the sea, I have always
been inclined to recognise in it, Triturrita, with the ancient
port of Pisa.1 It is true that the modern town does not
wholly correspond with the description given by Pcutilius.
1 Rutil. I. 527, a seq.; II. 12. Called
" Turrita" by the Peutingerian Table,
which places it 9 miles from Pisoe.
The Maritime Itinerary has " Portus
Pisanus " in the same position. Much
doubt has been thrown on the antiquity
of Livorno (Repetti, II. p. 717) ; and
the highest generally ascribed to it is
that of Roman times—either as the Ad
Herculem of the Antonine Itinerary, on
the Via Aurelia, 12 miles from Pisse ;
or the Labro of Cicero (ad Quint. Frat.
II. 6) ; or the laburnum, mentioned by
Zosimus (Annal. V. cited by Cluver) ;
whence the modern name, Livorno,
is derived. It is said to have been
called Ligurnum (Leghorn) in the mid-
dle ages. The arguments Cluver (IL
p. 467) adduces to prove that the Portus
was at the mouth of the Arno, seem to
We of little force. Cramer (Ancient
Italy, I. p. ] 75^ however, agrees with
Km. Mannert (Geog. p. 353) on the
other hand contends for the identity
°f Leghorn with the Portus Pisa-
nus. He places Labro, however, at
Salebro and Ad Herculem at Violino.
An intermediate opinion is held by
Targioni Tozzetti (Viaggi in Toscana,
II. pp. 398—420), who considers the port
of Pisae to have been a bay between the
Arno and the site of Leghorn, now filled
up with alluvial deposits from the river ;
and he finds Villa Triturrita in some
Roman remains on the inner shore of
this bay. Indeed it is well known that
the land has gained considerably on the
sea in the Delta of the Arno. Miiller
(Etrusk. I. 1, 2 ; I. 4, 8), who follows
Tozzetti, considers this port to have
been connected with the city, by an
ancient branch of the Arno, now
stopped up, one of the three mentioned
by Strabo, V. p. 222. Yet from the
Maritime Itinerary it seems evident
that it was not at the principal mouth
of the river, but 9 miles to the south ;
which favours the claims of Livorno.
The Villi in that Itinerary and the
Peutingerian Table, may easily be an
error for XIIII, which is the true dis-
tance between Leghorn and Pisa.
PISA.—PISM.
Alpheue veterem contemplor originis urbem
Quani cingunt geminis Arnus et Ausur aquis.
RuTILIUS.
On approaching Leghorn from the sea, I have always
been inclined to recognise in it, Triturrita, with the ancient
port of Pisa.1 It is true that the modern town does not
wholly correspond with the description given by Pcutilius.
1 Rutil. I. 527, a seq.; II. 12. Called
" Turrita" by the Peutingerian Table,
which places it 9 miles from Pisoe.
The Maritime Itinerary has " Portus
Pisanus " in the same position. Much
doubt has been thrown on the antiquity
of Livorno (Repetti, II. p. 717) ; and
the highest generally ascribed to it is
that of Roman times—either as the Ad
Herculem of the Antonine Itinerary, on
the Via Aurelia, 12 miles from Pisse ;
or the Labro of Cicero (ad Quint. Frat.
II. 6) ; or the laburnum, mentioned by
Zosimus (Annal. V. cited by Cluver) ;
whence the modern name, Livorno,
is derived. It is said to have been
called Ligurnum (Leghorn) in the mid-
dle ages. The arguments Cluver (IL
p. 467) adduces to prove that the Portus
was at the mouth of the Arno, seem to
We of little force. Cramer (Ancient
Italy, I. p. ] 75^ however, agrees with
Km. Mannert (Geog. p. 353) on the
other hand contends for the identity
°f Leghorn with the Portus Pisa-
nus. He places Labro, however, at
Salebro and Ad Herculem at Violino.
An intermediate opinion is held by
Targioni Tozzetti (Viaggi in Toscana,
II. pp. 398—420), who considers the port
of Pisae to have been a bay between the
Arno and the site of Leghorn, now filled
up with alluvial deposits from the river ;
and he finds Villa Triturrita in some
Roman remains on the inner shore of
this bay. Indeed it is well known that
the land has gained considerably on the
sea in the Delta of the Arno. Miiller
(Etrusk. I. 1, 2 ; I. 4, 8), who follows
Tozzetti, considers this port to have
been connected with the city, by an
ancient branch of the Arno, now
stopped up, one of the three mentioned
by Strabo, V. p. 222. Yet from the
Maritime Itinerary it seems evident
that it was not at the principal mouth
of the river, but 9 miles to the south ;
which favours the claims of Livorno.
The Villi in that Itinerary and the
Peutingerian Table, may easily be an
error for XIIII, which is the true dis-
tance between Leghorn and Pisa.