Note 044
The vestiges of Pollentia are twenty-five miles to the
south-east of Turin. Urbs, in the same neighbourhood, was a
royal chase of the kings of Lombardy, and a small river,
which excused the prediction, "penetrabis ad urbem." (Cluva.
Ital. Antiq. tom. i. p. 83-85.)
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 30