Eustace, John Cretwode: A classical tour through Italy An. MDCCCII (Band 2) (London: J. Mawman, 1815)

294 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch. IX.
as Strabo relates and Horace practised*; be-
cause the vapors that arise from the swamps are
less noxious during- the coolness of the night
than in the heat of the day. Many of the in-
conveniences of the marshes still continued to
be felt, as appears from Horace’s complaintsf,
and from the epithet applied by Lucan to the
Via Appia.
Et qua Pomptinas Via dividit Uda paludes. L. iii.
However the canal opened by Augustus still re-
mains, and is called the Cavata.
The luxury and the improvident policy of the
immediate successors of Augustus, and the civil
wars that raged under Galba, Otho, Vitellius
and Vespasian, diverted their attention from
works of peace and improvement; so that the
marshes had again increased and the waters
swelled, so as to render the Via Appia nearly

* Horace embarked in the evening, and arrived at Fero-
nia about ten o’clock next morning; having travelled about
seven-and-twenty miles in sixteen hours. The muleteer
seems to have been as slow and as sleepy as modern German
drivers.
f Aqua . . teterrima . . .
mali culices, ranzeque palustres,