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branched obliquely off the Aqua
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370:(the Trojan hero of this epic poem) the ruins of Saturnia and Janiculum on the Capitoline Hill near the Arcadian city of Pallanteum (the future site of Rome) (see line 54, Bk. 8). Virgil uses these ruins to stress the significance of the Capitoline Hill as the religious center of Rome.
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gave the sign to the surrounding belltowers to start ringing at midday. In 1904, the ritual was transferred to the
Janiculum and continued until 1939. On 21 April 1959, popular appeal convinced the Commune of Rome to resume the tradition after a twenty-year interruption.
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During the third century AD, a complex of water-mills was built here to grind grain to provide bread flour for the city. As revealed by excavations in the 1990s under the present
American Academy in Rome, they sat astride the aqueduct
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area, but only 2.6 m between their axle centres, which must have reduced efficiency due to turbulence between them. The southern race had one larger wheel.
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in design (i. e. with the stream entering at the bottom of the wheel, not the top). The mills were still in use in 537, when the
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is the name of an ancient town founded by the god Janus (the two-faced god of beginnings). In Book VIII of the
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and were in brick-faced concrete with a cocciopesto floor. In the limited excavated area, two
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of the Pope over Rome. Several monuments to
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as a time signal. This tradition goes back to
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to prevent an enemy from occupying it. It was fortified by a wall, and a
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