What were the most remarkable places on the Appian road?
FOOTNOTES: [1] Hence a gate was called _porta_, from _porta're_, to carry.

The reason of this part of the ceremony was, that the plough being deemed holy, it was unlawful that any thing unclean should pollute the place which it had touched; but it was obviously necessary that things clean and unclean should pass through the gates of the city.

It is remarkable that all the ceremonies here mentioned were imitated from the Tuscans.
[2] This, though apparently a mere conjecture, has been so fully proved by Niebuhr, (vol.i.p.

251,) that it may safely be assumed as an historical fact.
[3] See Chapter II.

of the following history.
[4] All authors are agreed that the Coelian hill was named from Coeles Viben'na, a Tuscan chief; but there is a great variety in the date assigned to his settlement at Rome.