ON BUILDINGS AND FIELDS
ANALYSIS
| I. | Cities (ch. 1). | ||
| Of India (6), Persia (7–10), Mesopotamia (12–13), Syria (14–15), Palestine (16–26), Phoenicia (27–28), Egypt (31–36), Asia Minor (37–41), Greece (43–48), Italy (49–62), Gaul (63–65), Spain (66–72), Northern Africa (74–77). | |||
| II. | Architecture.[353] | ||
| 1. | City architecture (ch. 2). | ||
| a. Kinds of cities (3–14). | |||
| b. Walls (17–21). | |||
| c. Gates, squares, sewers, etc. (22–46). | |||
| 2. | Dwellings (ch. 3). | ||
| 3. | Buildings for religious purposes (ch. 4). | ||
| 4. | Storehouses (ch. 5). | ||
| 5. | Workshops (ch. 6). | ||
| 6. | Entrances (ch. 7). | ||
| 7. | Parts of buildings (ch. 8). | ||
| 8. | Defences (ch. 9). | ||
| 9. | Tents (ch. 10). | ||
| 10. | Tombs (ch. 11). | ||
| 11. | Buildings in the country (ch. 12). | ||
| III. | Fields, landmarks, land-measures[354] (chs. 13–15). | ||
| IV. | Roads (ch. 16). | ||
EXTRACTS
Chapter 1. On cities.
5. The Jews assert that Shem, son of Noah, whom they call Melchisedeck, was the first after the flood to found the city of Salem in Syria, in which was the kingdom of the same Melchisedeck. This city the Jebusaei held later, from whom it got the name Jebus, and so the two names being united, Jebus and Salem became Hierusalem, and this was later called Hierosolyma by Solomon, as if Hierosolomonia.
42. Constantinople, a city of Thrace, Constantine called after his own name, the only city equal to Rome in deeds and power. This was first founded by Pausanias, king of the Spartans, and called Byzantium, because it extends between the Adriatic and the Propontis, or because it is a store-house for the wealth of land and sea.[355] Whence Constantine judged it very fit to become his store-house for land and sea. And it is now the seat of Roman power, and the capital of the whole Orient, as Rome is of the Occident.
66. Caesaraugusta Tarraconensis,[356] a town of Spain, was both founded and named by Caesar Augustus, excelling all the cities of Spain in the beauty of its site and in its attractions (deliciis), and more famous than all, and distinguished (florens) for the graves of the sainted martyrs.
67. The Africans under Hannibal occupied the coast of Spain and built Carthago Spartaria, which presently was captured and made a colony by the Romans, and gave its name also to the province. But now it has been destroyed and reduced to desolation by the Goths.
69. Caesar Augustus built Emerita after he had taken Lusitania and certain islands of the Ocean, giving it a name from the fact that he placed his veteran soldiers there. For veterans, freed from service, are called emeriti.