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CHAPTER XXXII

. THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY

_Excavation of walls, gates, towers_: FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 154, 234-236, pt. 3, pp. 64-69, 76, 84-88, 96-97, 111-124, 131, 143-151, 160, 168-170, vol. 2, pp. 1, 501-506, 530, 593-597.

_Remains_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 1, pp. 33-37, 52-53, pl. 10-13, 35-37; GELL, Pompeiana (Edit. of 1852), pp. 87-96, 98; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 457-516; MAU, Pomp. Beitraege, pp. 211-215, 235-252; MAU, Geschichte der dec. Wandmalerei, pp. 57-59.

_Oscan inscriptions_ [p. 240]: ZVETAIEFF, Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum, nos. 80-83, pl. 14 (nos. 7, 8), pl. 15, pl. 16 (no. 4); VON PLANTA, Grammatik der Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekte, vol. 2, p. 503; CONWAY, Italic Dialects, vol. 1, pp. 69-71; DEGERING, Ueber die militaerischen Wegweiser in Pompeji, Roem. Mitth., vol. 13 (1898), pp. 124-146; MAU, Die Oskischen Wegweiserinschriften in Pompeji, Roem. Mitth., vol. 14 (1899), pp. 105-113.

_The Stabian Gate_ [p. 242]: MINERVINI, Strada e porta Stabiana, Bull. Arch. Napolitano, Nuova Serie, vol. 1 (1853), pp. 186-187 and pl. 8, fig. 10; FIORELLI, Gli scavi di Pompei dal 1861 al 1872, pp. 78-79, pl. 14, fig. 2.

_Minerva as patron divinity of city gates_ [p. 242]: that is, according to Greek usage, an indication of the strength of Greek influence at Pompeii. Among the Romans the divinity of city gates was Juno. Cf. Serv. Com. in Verg. ad Aen. II, 610.

_Inscription of Flaccus and Firmus_ [p. 242]: C. I. L. X. 1064.

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