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The walls of the Palatine hill and of the Capitoline citadel were built of material quarried on the spot a mixture of charred pumice-stones and reddish volcanic sand. The quarries used for the fortification of the Capitol were located at the foot of the hill toward the Argiletum, and were so important as to give their name, Lautumiae, to the neighboring district.
Conversely, the name of the Syracusan prison, "stone-quarries" or latomiai , was transferred at an early period to the enlarged Roman state-prison, the -lautumiae-. Character of the Roman Law
Conversely, the name of the Syracusan prison, "stone-quarries" or latomiai , was transferred at an early period to the enlarged Roman state-prison, the -lautumiae-. Character of the Roman Law
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