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COSA , an See also: ancient See also:city of See also:Etruria, on the S.W. See also:coast of See also:Italy, See also:close to the Via See also:Aurelia, 42 M. E.S.E. of the See also:modern See also:town of See also:Orbetello. Apparently it was not an See also:independent See also:Etruscan town, but was founded as a See also:colony by the See also:Romans in the territory of the Volceientes, whom they had recently conquered, in 273 B.C. The town was strongly fortified, and the walls, about a mile in See also:circuit, with three See also:gates, and seventeen projecting rectangular towers at intervals, are in places preserved to a height of over 30 ft. on the outside, and 15 on the inside. The See also:lower See also:part is built of polygonal, the upper of rectangular, blocks, and the See also:masonry is of equal fineness all through, so that a difference of date cannot be assumed; such a See also:change of technique is not without parallel in See also:Greece (F. Noack in Romische Mitteilungen, 1897, 194). Within the city no remains are visible. The See also:place was of importance as a fortress; it was approached by a See also:branch road which diverged from the Via Aurelia at the See also:post station of Succosa, at the See also:foot 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 on which the town stood. The See also:harbour, too, was of some importance. In the 5th See also:century we hear of it as deserted, and in the 9th a town called Ansedonia took its place for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but itself soon perished, though it has See also:left its name to the ruins.
See G. See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883), ii. 245. (T.
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