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ANCIENT GATE AND WALLS OF COSA.
CHAPTER XLVII.
ANSEDONIA.—COM.
Cerniraus antiquas nullo custode roinas,
Et desolatse moenia fceda Cosse.
RUTILIUS.
Go round about her, and tell the towers thereof.
Mark well her bulwarks ; that ye may tell them that come after.
Psalm.
As Cosa was in the time of the Emperor Honorius, such
is it still—a deserted waste of ruins, inclosed by dilapidated
walls ; fourteen centuries have wrought no change in its
condition. Yet it is one of the most remarkable Etruscan
sites, and should not fail to be visited by every one inter-
ested in ancient fortifications.
It occupies the flat summit of a truncated conical hill,
CHAPTER XLVII.
ANSEDONIA.—COM.
Cerniraus antiquas nullo custode roinas,
Et desolatse moenia fceda Cosse.
RUTILIUS.
Go round about her, and tell the towers thereof.
Mark well her bulwarks ; that ye may tell them that come after.
Psalm.
As Cosa was in the time of the Emperor Honorius, such
is it still—a deserted waste of ruins, inclosed by dilapidated
walls ; fourteen centuries have wrought no change in its
condition. Yet it is one of the most remarkable Etruscan
sites, and should not fail to be visited by every one inter-
ested in ancient fortifications.
It occupies the flat summit of a truncated conical hill,