Original sentence: " Finds and Venetic funeral inscriptions show that it was a center as early as the fifth century BC.Altinum was both strategic and beautiful, of which Strabo is cited as describing: "Altinum too is in a marsh, for the portion it occupies is similar to that of Ravenna", a waterlogged city whose canals were flushed by the tides: "These cities, then, are for the most part surrounded by the marshes, and hence subject to inundations
Edited sentence: " Altinum was both strategic and beautiful.All that Strabo had to say of the city was "Altinum too is in a marsh, for the portion it occupies is similar to that of Ravenna", a waterlogged city whose canals were flushed by the tides: "These cities, then, are for the most part surrounded by the marshes, and hence subject to inundations.Finds and Venetic funeral inscriptions show that it was a center as early as the fifth century BC