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and for insula generally Middleton's article "Domus" in the _Dict, of Antiquities_, ed.2.De Marchi (_La Religione nella vita domestica_, i.p.

80) compares the big lodging-houses of the poor at Naples.] [Footnote 43: Cicero (_Leg.

Agr._ ii.35.

96) describes Rome as being (in comparison with Capua) "in montibus positam et convallibus, coenaculis (i.e.upper rooms) sublatum atque suspensam, non optimis viis," etc.Vitruv.ii.17 is the _locus classicus_.] [Footnote 44: Cic.

_pro Caelio_ 17.] [Footnote 45: In _C.I.L._ vi.


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