Parker, John Henry: The archaeology of Rome (1,text): I. The primitive fortifications (Oxford [u.a.], 1874)

SECT. II.] The Gates of Rome in the time of Vespasian, ill

street, being the direct way to the Porta Colima, through which the road passes,
before it branched off to the Porta Salaria. The distance along this line of
road is ......... I mille 800 passus.”
V. The Porta Nomentan a is on the Via Nomentana, leading
to the Porta Collina, in the same manner as the Porta Salaria was
on the Via Salaria, leading to the same inner gate. The old gate-
way remains, though in rather a ruined state s. The road was turned
a little to the north in the sixteenth century, when the Porta Pia was
built on the new part of the road.
“The road to this gate follows the line of the preceding to the Porta Collina,
when it turns off to this gate, making . . . . 1 mille 770 passus.”

VI. The Porta Chiusa, or the closed gate, is so called because
antiquaries cannot agree about the ancient name of it. The exterior
of this gate is distinctly of the time of Honorius, but this is an ex-
ternal facing only ; in the interior the gate-posts are built of the large
oblong split stones of the style of the Kings, and it has on one side
the remains of a cornice of the time of the Republic. This ancient
gateway was evidently standing then, and in use at the time that the
wall of the Praetorian Camp was built up against the north side of
it, but Honorius fortified it afresh as we see it. The outside and the
inside of the wall do not at all agree with each other, the outside
being evidently built up against the inner part.
“ There seem to be traces of an early road which passes up the valley between
the Quirinal and Viminal Hill, and in front of the remains of the Lavacrum of
Agrippina (possibly the Vicus Long-up. The Via del Grillo and the modern Via
di Magnanapoli probably connect this line of street with the Via Bonella and the
Forum. To the south of the Thermse of Diocletian the street is named Via
Strozzi. It passed no doubt through the Porta Viminalis to the closed gate south
of the Praetorian Camp. The total length giving . . 1 mille 850 passus.”

VII. The Porta Tiburtina, that is, the gate on the road to
Tibur or Tivoli, through the outer wall, has an earlier gate of the
time of Augustus preserved in the middle of it, as is proved by
the inscription upon it relating to the aqueducts, which are carried
over it. The older archway is buried up to the springing of the
arch, or probably about ten feet, by the filling up of the foss-way in
which it was made. On each side of it, that is, outside and inside
of it, is a gateway-arch of Honorius11 standing at its original elevation,
the level of the road not having been altered since his time. But in

g One of the towers of this gate was
destroyed in 1867 by the builders of the
new wall of the architect Poletti, under
the name of Pius IX., in connection
with the new gate of Porta Pia.
h Since this was written, the inner

arch of Honorius has been destroyed
by the Pontifical Government, in 1870;
but one jamb of it, being built into
a modern house, is preserved, and this
shews the level.