Note 89 — OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39]
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He says (in Nerone, cap. 30) that a portico or piazza of it was 3000 feet long; “tanta laxitas ut porticus triplices milliarias haberet.” He cannot mean three miles, for the whole extent of the house from the Palatine to the Esquiline was not near so great. So when Vopiscus, in Aureliano, mentions a portico of Sallust’s gardens, which he calls porticus milliariensis, it must be understood of a thousand feet. So also Horace—