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Flaming over the mountains rose an unclouded sun, shining on the purple coast, with its innumerable rock-towns "tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis" and sending broad paths over the "wine-dark" sea.
"Crocodilon adorat Pars haec; illa pavet saturam serpentibus ibin: Effigies sacri hic nitet aurea cercopitheci; Hic piscem flumints, illic Oppida tota canem venerantur."
Non indignemur mortalia corpora solvi Cernimus exemplis oppida posse mori. Here are several manufactories of excellent lace and many breweries, but the beer is considered as greatly inferior to that of Louvain. The houses are spacious, and exhibit singular specimens of ancient taste; the roofs rise to a great height and terminate in a sharp point.
These towns were re-founded at a much later date, and their lands, and even their streets, may have been laid out anew. Varro ling. lat. 5. 143 oppida condebant Etrusco ritu, id est, iunctis bobus, cf. Frontinus de limit.
The site of the oppidum is a little tableland raised above the surrounding soil by a natural embankment. The circumvallation in its best preserved places is now from seven to ten feet high. The materials used were such as Caesar mentions as having been employed by the Gauls in the fortification of their oppida, namely, timber and rough stone.
Claudian draws a very different portrait of Stilicho. Enfin on y remarque quelques beaux vers, et particulièrement celui-ci sur une ville ruinée. Cernimus exemplis oppida posse mori.
But the towns of central Italy were in great part more ancient than the era of precise town-planning, and many of them were perched in true Italian fashion on lofty crags praeruptis oppida saxis which gave no room for square or oblong house-blocks.
And swaying backwards and forwards he fell into the golden lines: Adde tot egregias urbes, operumque laborem, Tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis, Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. 'Congesta manu!
On his approach the Carnutes, taught by the fate of others, abandoned their miserable huts which they had erected on the site of their burgs and oppida destroyed in the last campaign and fled in every direction. The cavalry and auxiliary infantry were sent in pursuit of the Carnutes, who, hunted down everywhere, and without shelter, took refuge in the neighboring counties.
Such a prospect could not fail of bringing Virgil's panegyric of Italy full in my mind: "Tot congesta manu praeruptis oppida saxis Fluminaque antiquos suhterlabentia muros." As soon as we arrived in sight of Capua, the sky darkened, clouds covered the horizon, and presently poured down such deluges of rain as floated the whole country.
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