In this case the shape of the camp becomes an oblong, the area double, and the length of the entire aggerhalf as much again.
Back to back with the equites extraordinarii are the infantry of the same, facing the agger at the rear of the whole camp.
And the space left empty on either side of these, facing the agger on each side of the camp, is given up to foreigners and such allies as chance to come to the camp.
Between the line of the tents and the agger there is an empty space of two hundred feet on every side of the square, which is turned to a great variety of uses.
For the extra numbers of allies who joined originally an extra line of tents (forming thus another via) is put up parallel with the other tents of the socii, facing the agger on either side of the camp.
The design was carried out by Servius Tullius, who also constructed the enormous agger called by his name, and still partly remaining at the back of the Esquiline, Viminal and Quirinal Hills.
The wall probably ran from the southern end of the aggeralong the back of the Esquiline and Caelian in the direction of the modern Via Merulana and Via Ferratella.
Excavations which have been made in this part of the agger from time to time, and the extensions of the city in this direction have brought to light an enormous wall buried in the earth, constructed of huge blocks of peperino.
It is sometimes called a part of the House of Maecenas, but there is no authority for this, and it is more probable that the House of Maecenas stood nearer to the Agger of Servius.
The Agger of Servius, which has now been so much levelled and destroyed, ran between the Church of S.
The agger had been burnt and the siege towers destroyed.
They were driven in, and the flames were extinguished; the agger was level with the walls, and defence was no longer possible.
Therefore the arches of the vineae were covered over with beams a foot thick, fastened together, and under this the materials of the agger were handed from one to another.
The Agger can be traced from the Porta Esquilina (near the Arch of Gallienus), to the Porta Collina (near the Gardens of Sallust).
Hence it must have been outside the Wall or agger of Servius Tullius, remains of which have been found on the left-hand side of the road leading from S.
From the Tiber a wall went to the Capitoline, and from that to the Quirinal; across the necks of the three tongues the great agger was built, then across the valleys from hill to hill till the wall again reached the river under the Aventine.
The Esquiline, Viminal, and Quirinal, being ridges jutting out of the table-land and not isolated hills, had one long agger built across their necks.
Tarquinius Superbus raised an outer agger on the eastern side of Rome.
Behind the custom-house is a fine piece of the Agger and the Porta Viminalis.
This grand agger can be traced almost in its entire extent, as also the smaller aggers.
The French soldiers, once free from drill or guard or from practising trumpet-calls on the old Agger of Servius Tullius near by, are sure to be rolling balls in this fascinating game.
Meanwhile, from the Agger beyond are heard the distressing trumpets struggling with false notes and wheezing and shrieking in ludicrous discord, while now and then the solemn bell of Santa Maria Maggiore tolls from the neighboring hill.
He replied that if they would send some or come themselves to escort him on the tenth day from that on which they spoke, he would go to Agger with them, but that until then he could not do so.
In due course these messengers returned with the tale that the head men of Agger had met together and deposed Steinar from his lordship over them, electing another man, a nephew of Steinar's father.
Even some of the men of Agger were there, who had come to pay homage to their new lord.
At any rate my father and mother tried to cheer him and in the end bade the men of Agger draw near to tell him the tale of his heritage.
They say also that the folk of Agger have named you Hakon's heir, as, indeed, you are by right of blood.
He asked where the men of Agger were, and Steinar told him what he had done.
They asked him humbly whether he would be pleased to return with them that day and take possession of his inheritance, since they must get back forthwith to Agger with their tidings.
In 1836 the ditch and agger by which the station was fortified were still visible near the crown of the hill on which part of Wigan now stands.
But that the north agger of the Vallum was thrown up either by Agricola or Hadrian to serve the purposes of a road, is a proposition too startling to be received even on the authority of the learned Horsley.
It would have delighted Horsley's heart to notice that the present road runs upon the north agger of the Vallum, maintaining, as he did, that this was the Military Way of Agricola.
The fosse of the Vallum is cut through free-stone rock; its southern agger is very elevated, and would present a bold and angry front to any intruder from the south.
It is quite evident that here, at least, the north agger did not form the Military Way.
The north agger goes close to the south side of this hill; so that they were also obliged to carry the Vallum round the hill in order to preserve the parallelism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
