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By the Ionian Sea

CHAPTER II
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A little further, and before us lay a long, level road, a true Roman highway, straight for mile after mile.

By this road the Visigoths must have marched after the sack of Rome.

In approaching Cosenza I was drawing near to the grave of Alaric.

Along this road the barbarian bore in triumph those spoils of the Eternal City which were to enrich his tomb.
By this road, six hundred years before the Goth, marched Hannibal on his sullen retreat from Italy, passing through Cosentia to embark at Croton..


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