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its diseases should not be forgotten in
ancient or modern times.
Ptolemy bounds Campania by the Lirys
and Sarnus. Frontinus tells us, it was
longer than broad. The greatest length,
according to this map, from Sinuessa to
the Sarnus, will be found to measure 33
English miles: the breadth, from Tifata
and the continuant line of mountains to
the sea, will average 12; producing an
area of 396 English square miles, each
containing about 127 Roman jugera. We
shall thus find the superficial content of
this country precisely agreeing with the
50,000 jugera assigned to it by Cicero,
in his letter to Atticus, ii. 16. The ancient
coast, from Oplontis to Stabia, seems to
have receded on either side of Pompeii;
and modern observation would point out
the west as well as the south sides of the
city as formerly washed by the sea, which
turned the amphitheatre before the Sarnus
its diseases should not be forgotten in
ancient or modern times.
Ptolemy bounds Campania by the Lirys
and Sarnus. Frontinus tells us, it was
longer than broad. The greatest length,
according to this map, from Sinuessa to
the Sarnus, will be found to measure 33
English miles: the breadth, from Tifata
and the continuant line of mountains to
the sea, will average 12; producing an
area of 396 English square miles, each
containing about 127 Roman jugera. We
shall thus find the superficial content of
this country precisely agreeing with the
50,000 jugera assigned to it by Cicero,
in his letter to Atticus, ii. 16. The ancient
coast, from Oplontis to Stabia, seems to
have receded on either side of Pompeii;
and modern observation would point out
the west as well as the south sides of the
city as formerly washed by the sea, which
turned the amphitheatre before the Sarnus