The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Pomptine Marshes
Also known as Pontine Marshes, Decennovium
- marsh
- Roman engineering
The malarial coastal plain southeast of Rome, the Pontine Marshes, crossed by the nineteen-mile Decennovium canal. Travelers on the Appian approach dreaded its stagnant waters.
- Type
- marsh
- Style
- Roman engineering
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 180
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The malarial coastal plain southeast of Rome, the Pontine Marshes, crossed by the nineteen-mile Decennovium canal. Travelers on the Appian approach dreaded its stagnant waters.
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