See also:FAESULAE (mod.. See also:Fiesole, q.v.)
, an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Etruria, on the height 3 M. to the N.E. of Florentia, 97o ft. above See also:sea-level
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Remains of its walls are preserved on all sides, especially on the N.E., in one plaee to a. height of 12 to 14 courses
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The blocks are often not quite rectangular, and the courses sometimes See also:change; but the See also:general tendency is, See also:horizontal and the walls are not of remote antiquity, the irregularities in them being rather due to the hardness of the material employed, the See also:rock of the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill itself
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The courses vary in height from to 3 ft., and some blocks are as See also:long as 121 ft
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In this portion of the See also:wall are two drains, below one of which is a phallus
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The site of an ancient See also:gate, and the road below it, can be traced; a little farther E. was an archway, conjectured by See also:Dennis to be a gate of the See also:Roman See also:period, destroyed in 1848
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The whole See also:circuit of the walls extended for about 1j m
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The Franciscan monastery (1130 ft.) occupies the site of the See also:acropolis, once encircled by a triple wall, of which no traces are now visible
.
Here was also the Capitolium of Roman times, as an inscription found here in 1879 records (Corpus Inscr
.
See also:Lat. xi., See also:Berlin, 1888, No
.
1545)
.
The Roman See also:theatre, below the See also:cathedral to the N.E., has 19 tiers of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone seats and is' 37 yds. in See also:diameter
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Above it is an embanking wall of irregular See also:masonry, and below it some remains of Roman See also:baths, including five parallel vaults of See also:concrete
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Just outside the See also:town on the E. a See also:reservoir, roofed by the convergence of its sides, which were of large See also:regular blocks, was discovered in 1832, but filled in again
.
Over r000 See also:silver denarii, all. coined before 63 B.C., were found at See also:Faesulae in 1829
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A small museum contains the See also:objects found in the excavations of the theatre
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Though Faesulae was an See also:Etruscan city, we have no See also:record of it in See also:history until 215 B.C., when the Gauls passed near it in their See also:march on See also:Rome
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Twelve years later See also:Hannibal seems to have taken this route in his march See also:south after the victory of the See also:Trebia
.
It appears to have suffered at the hands of Rome in the Social See also:War, and See also:Sulla expelled some of the inhabitants from their lands to make See also:room for his veterans, but some of the latter were soon driven out in their turn by the former occupiers
.
Both the veterans, who soon wasted what they had acquired, and the dispossessed cultivators joined the partisans of See also:Catiline, and See also:Manlius, one of his supporters, made his headquarters at Faesulae
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Under the See also:empire we hear practically nothing of it; in A.D
.
405 Radagaisus was crushed in the neighbouring hills, and See also:Belisarius besieged and took it in A.D
.
539
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See L
.
A
.
Milani, Rendiconti dei Lincei, See also:ser. vi. vol. ix
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(1900), 289 seq., on the See also:discovery of an archaic See also:altar of the See also:Locus sacer of See also:Florence, belonging to Ancharia (See also:Angerona), the goddess of See also:Fiesole
.
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