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Copied from public domain text[edit]

The article is copied directly from "The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome" by Rodolfo Lanciani; Houghton Mifflin, 1897 - the only online source is http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97545903

The book is clearly out of copyright so this isn't a copyvio. But there may be database rights issues. The Questia site carries the following notice: "You are not permitted to copy any portion of our site for distribution to others other than in the normal course of your personal or academic research." andy 08:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The book "The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome" by Rodolfo Lanciani is available in full as PDF from Google Books. Other sources there may also be relevant. I'm no Roman Scholar, but I'm not a bad editor. I'll take a look at what's here and see if I can't organize it to fit standards better. Narasinha (talk) 12:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Beyond the fact that the physical book itself exists, if the material is out of copyright, the database claims are entirely irrelevant to repetition of its contents. They would be within their rights to consider an 'infringer' a persona non grata and cut off further access to their system but there wouldn't be a claim against having the public domain material up elsewhere. — LlywelynII 00:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup done[edit]

I've done some copy-editing on the article, cleaned up the intro paragraph, added sources, and wikified. I believe this should take care of the clean-up notices for the time being, so I'm removing all four from the article (Copyedit, Wikify, Unreferenced, context). Narasinha (talk) 04:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More cleanup needed[edit]

The huge blockquote from Lanciani is interesting but highly misleading. There's more in Lanciani that should be added back into the article with citation, but his objections against Tacitus aren't well taken. Tacitus says the route included the Altar of Hercules and ran along the base of the Palatine to the Altar of Consus. That pointedly does not involve drawing a straight line between the two endpoints. It is, in fact, the exact opposite of that. Similarly, the route hugging the base of the Palatine means that it would've specifically avoided the conjectural marshes complained about. The cippi weren't set up at the time (a wall—theoretically—was) but at a much later date before being removed entirely before the time of Tacitus. We don't need to shoot all that down ourselves if no one has bothered to refute him about this in print yet, but we shouldn't just hang up his blockquote as if it's authoritative and complete. — LlywelynII 00:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]