Ostia

Yeah.

Ostia.

That's a swear word in Spanish.

Yeah, it is actually.

I'm thinking B or D.

Okay.

Ravenna or Ostia.

I'm going to go Ostia.

Seemingly, however, this was not yet the end of the story.

Another of the most touching scenes is the last, when Monica and her son were at Ostia, the port of Rome, awaiting her final departure for North Africa.

As the day approached, she writes, as the day approached on which she was to depart from this life, which you knew and we did not, it was arranged, I believe, by you in your own secret ways, that she and I were standing alone at the window of the house looking both ways, looking onto the garden of the house which we had in Ossia Tiberina, remote from all disturbance after the hardships of the long journey.

As we were preparing to set sail, we were chatting on our own, very harmoniously, forgetful of all the trials we'd undergone.

To eastward and to westward have spread the Tuscan bands, nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote.

In Crustimerium stands Verbena down to Ostia.

hath wasted all the plain astir hath stormed geniculum and the stout guards are slain i wis in all the senate there was no heart so bold but saw it ached and fast it beat when that ill news was told forthwith up rose the consul up rose the fathers all in haste they girded up their gowns and hied them to the wall they held a council standing Before the river gate, short time was there, ye well may guess, for musing or debate, out spake the council roundly.

The bridge must straight go down, for since Janiculum is lost, nought else can save the town.

Arminius smote down Aruns, Lartius laid Ochnus low, right to the heart of Lausulus, Horatius sent a blow.

Lie there, he cried, felt pirate, no more aghast and pale.

From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark the track of thy destroying bark.

No more Campania's hinds shall fly to woods and caverns when they spy thy thrice accursed sail.

What if not everyone died? And he took names that were unique to Pompeii, real family names chiseled on the stones, and he went looking for them in the surrounding towns after the year of 79 AD, and he found them.

Over and over, he discovered Pompeiian families turning up alive, and in nearby cities like Naples and Ostia and Paestum, and they're basically rebuilding their lives elsewhere in the years after th- the disaster.

There's a family of fish sauce merchants who fled, literally.

Like, think of just, like, a regular kind of, like, middle-class family that makes fish sauce, and they sell it to sailors and different merchants that come around, and they set up their business again in a new city.

And not only the city, but the territory also and boundaries of the state were extended by this king.

The Mesian forest was taken away from the Vantians, the Roman dominion extended as far as the sea, and the city of Ostia built at the mouth of the Tiber, near which salt pits were formed.

And in consequence of the glorious success obtained in war, the temple of Jupiter Feretrius was enlarged.

What's up everybody? It's Bretzky and America is turning two hundred and fifty.

At first a scarcity of provisions occasioned by the lands lying untilled during the secession of the commons, and afterwards a famine, not less severe than what is felt in a besieged city.

This without doubt would have increased to such a degree that the slaves, and also many of the commons, must have perished, had not the consuls taken measures to remedy it, by sending to all quarters to buy up corn.

Not only into Etruria on the coast to the right of Ostia, and by permission of the Volscians along the coast on the left as far as Cumae, but even to Sicily, for the hatred entertained against them by their neighbors compelled them thus to look for aid to distant countries.

After a quantity of corn had been purchased at Cumae, the ships were detained by the tyrant Aristodemus, as the property of the Tarquini, whose heir he was.