"E poiché tu sai di non poterti vedere bene se non per riflesso, io, il tuo specchio, rivelerò con discrezione a te stesso quello che di te stesso tu ancora non conosci"
Rome
is it here? behind the Gasometro Ostiense? Here? not so far from the monument of Gaius Cestius? the marble pyramid built about 18 BC - 12 BC?
Rome, 2015 A.D.
PONS AEMILIUS - the oldest Roman bridge built in Rome in142 BC
In the background there is PONS FABRICIUS one of the few Roman bridge still existing in its original state. Has been continuously in use since 62 BC (the year after Cicero was consul) when, according to Dio Cassius, the bridge was built. It take its name by Lucius Fabricius, the curator of the roads and a member of the gens Fabricia of Rome.
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