[164] See C. C. J. Bunsen’s Beschreibung der Stadt Rom. Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1830, 8vo.
[165] The mother of Cola di Rienzi was one of those who gained a livelihood by selling water in the streets.
[166] The ruined castellum at the Porta Furba, two miles from Rome, (previously mentioned,) seems to have been of this description; it rises considerably above the level of the conduits, vertically, as if either for water or air to rush up it.
[167] Cassiodori Var., lib. vii. 6, and iv. 31.
[168] Procopius, de Bello Gothico, lib. i. c. 19.
[169] This is shewn by the large corbels in the wall on the bank of the river at this point, opposite to the Cloaca Maxima, which are pierced with holes through them, in which a pole was placed to attach the chain. These corbels remain perfect on the western side; on the eastern side, they have been destroyed, or covered over by medieval houses. Those which remain are carved into the form of gigantic lions’ heads, of the character called Etruscan, but are of the time when the Port of Rome was made in the Tiber, B.C. 180.
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