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203.6.

latum: as a width of over 300 feet is incredible, some have supposed that this is an error for longum; others, that the numeral should be xxxx.—altum pedes lxxx: it must be remembered that the height of the agger had to equal the depth of the ravine it crossed, and also the height of the Gallic wall. The latter may have been thirty feet.


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