id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6675 Alsium - Wikipedia .html text/html 1118 162 74 It appears to have early become a favorite resort with the wealthy Romans as a place of retirement and pleasure;[11] thus we find that Pompey the Great had a villa there, and Julius Caesar also, where he landed on his return from Africa, and at which all the nobles of Rome hastened to greet him.[12] Another is mentioned as belonging to Lucius Verginius Rufus, the guardian of Pliny, and we learn from Fronto that the emperor Marcus Aurelius had a villa there, to which several of his epistles are addressed.[13] At a later period the town itself had fallen into utter decay, but the site was still occupied by villas, as well as that of the neighbouring Pyrgi.[14] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6675.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6675.txt