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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. 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. 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. The courses vary in height from to 3 ft., and some blocks are as See also:long as 121 ft. In this portion of the See also:wall are two drains, below one of which is a phallus. 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. The whole See also:circuit of the walls extended for about 1j m. 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. 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. 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 Faesulae in 1829. A small museum contains the See also:objects found in the excavations of the theatre.
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. 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. 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.
See L. A. Milani, Rendiconti dei Lincei, See also:ser. vi. vol. ix. (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 Fiesole.
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