Audollent, _Carthage
romaine_ (Paris, 1901), pp. 309, 846. The older accounts of Daux
and Tissot seem less trustworthy.
[Illustration: FIG. 24. A PART OF CARTHAGE.
Plan based on the _Carte archeologique des ruines de Carthage_, by
Gauckler and Delattre.]
_Laibach_ (fig. 25), _Numantia, Lincoln_ (fig. 26).
Three or four more ordinary examples chosen at random from provincial
municipalities may show the diffusion of town-planning in the western
Roman world. One example, from the borders of Italy, may be found just
outside the pleasant town of Laibach in southern Austria. Here
Augustus in 34 B.C. planted a 'Colonia Iulia Augusta Emona', and
recent work of Dr. W. Schmid has thrown much light on its character.
The colony was in outline a rectangle of nearly 55 acres (480 x 560
yds.), and was divided up into forty-eight blocks by five streets
which ran north and south and seven which crossed them at right
angles; of these forty-eight blocks some must, of course, have been
taken up by public buildings. They varied in size: the largest as yet
planned (II in fig. 25) measured 170 x 195 ft., or 3/4 acre; two
others measured 163 x 170 ft.; while one block, which contained one
large house not unlike the Silchester 'inn', was 112 x 168 ft. (Plan,
II), and the block next it was a trifle smaller. None of the
dimensions show any trace of the normal 120 or 240 ft. (p. 79). The
streets were very broad (37-40 ft.); one, which may be the 'cardo
maximus', measured as much as 47 ft. across. Beneath the main streets
were sewers, in the usual fashion. Round the whole town stood strong
walls, reinforced at regular intervals by square projecting towers;
the four corners were not rounded but rectangular, after the fashion
of Aosta and Turin (pp. 87, 90).[99]
[99] _Correspondenzblatt des Gesamtvereins der deutschen
Geschichts und Altertumsvereine_, April 1912; _Bericht vi der
roemisch-germanischen Kommission_ 1910-11, p. 96. Muellner's
_Emona_ (Laibach, 1879), p. 19, plate 2, is wholly inadequate.
[Illustration: FIG. 25. A PART OF LAIBACH.
(From W. Schmid.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 26. LINCOLN, OUTLINE OF ROMAN WALLS.
(See p. 118.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 27. LINCOLN, BASES OF COLONNADE UNDER BAILGATE.
(p. 118).]
For a second example turn to a remote corner of central Spain. The
town of Numantia was famous in early days for its long struggle with
the armies of the Roman Republic. Under Roman rule it was wholl
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