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the Elder's statement on the topic of the marshes: "Another marvel not far from Circello is the Pomptine Marsh, a place that Mucianus, who was three times...37 KB (5,178 words) - 11:30, 4 September 2024
Livy wrote that with this Rome "acquired undisputed control" of the Pomptine Marshes in the southern part of the Volscian territory. However, the Volsci...58 KB (8,997 words) - 07:48, 4 August 2024
is perched above a precipitous cliff with a splendid view over the Pomptine Marshes below; the highest point stands to ca. 460 meters (over 1500 feet)...6 KB (635 words) - 11:15, 23 September 2021
Dilke, O. A. W.; Dilke, Margaret S. (October 1961). "Terracina and the Pomptine Marshes". Greece & Rome. II:8 (2). Cambridge University Press: 172–178. doi:10...27 KB (1,661 words) - 16:02, 12 August 2024
establishing control over the ager Pomptinus (the territory of the Pomptine Marshes and the Monti Lepini) and in 381 annexing the Latin town of Tusculum...18 KB (2,589 words) - 23:56, 24 July 2024- prefect to restore Pompey's theatre; he carried on the drainage of the Pomptine marshes, and he was a great restorer of aqueducts. Indeed, it is quite possible...21 KB (2,988 words) - 17:12, 17 March 2023
- grain were also thwarted in the territory of the Volsci, including the Pomptine Marshes. Because of recent wars with Rome, the corn merchants were threatened...3 KB (310 words) - 11:09, 19 July 2022
- infrastructure, and that the existing Via Appia, which ran through the Pomptine Marshes, was inadequate for traffic. Thus "his charge was really to build the...11 KB (1,364 words) - 13:04, 12 February 2024
and Ptolemy VIII, and Ariarathes V, death of Paullus Aemilius, the Pomptine Marshes are drained. 47 Lost 160–154 BC Division of Egypt between Ptolemy VI...59 KB (4,697 words) - 14:59, 2 September 2024- position he served alongside Lucius Anicius Gallus. He drained the Pomptine Marshes and converted them into arable land. In 171 BC he was sent as part...2 KB (112 words) - 03:30, 11 October 2023
- inscriptions. The nomen Pomptinus seems to be derived from the region of the Pomptine Marshes, in southeastern Latium. This area was brought under Roman control...5 KB (662 words) - 17:56, 21 March 2023
area 1st century BC Forum Appii–Terracina Drainage For dewatering Pomptine Marshes; navigated when Via Appia unusable by mule-towing Late 1st century...12 KB (542 words) - 05:26, 11 March 2022
Appian Way (section The barrier of the Pontine Marshes)trap Pyrrhus had retreated to avoid, in the Pomptine fields, the successor to the Pontine Marshes. The marsh remained, despite many efforts to drain it...33 KB (3,812 words) - 07:02, 11 August 2024- grain were also thwarted in the territory of the Volsci, including the Pomptine Marshes. Because of recent wars with Rome, the corn merchants were threatened...3 KB (404 words) - 18:45, 29 June 2022
- modern times, south-eastern Latium was covered by the Pontine Marshes. Between these marshes and the Monti Lepini there was an area of dry land, the ager...55 KB (8,078 words) - 13:02, 21 August 2023
sent out a new colony to Norba, in the mountains, as a stronghold for the Pomptine country", which was a Volscian area near Velitrae. According to Diodorus...44 KB (6,127 words) - 09:10, 31 August 2024
- Volume 22 Pomptine Marshes by Thomas Ashby 5915381911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22 — Pomptine MarshesThomas Ashby POMPTINE MARSHES, a low tract
- healthy. Chapter IV, Sec. 10 Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand