A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . n Rome. ItsChristian interest is unrivalled, from its having been erected by theSenate to commemorate the taking of Jerusalem, and from itsbas-reliefs of the seven-branched candlestick and other treasuresof the Jewish temple. Hawthorne says: Standing beneath theArch of Titus, and amid so much ancient dust, it is difficultto forbear the commonplaces of enthusiasm, on which hundredsof tourists have already insisted. Over the half-worn pavement, andbeneath this arch, the Roma
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . n Rome. ItsChristian interest is unrivalled, from its having been erected by theSenate to commemorate the taking of Jerusalem, and from itsbas-reliefs of the seven-branched candlestick and other treasuresof the Jewish temple. Hawthorne says: Standing beneath theArch of Titus, and amid so much ancient dust, it is difficultto forbear the commonplaces of enthusiasm, on which hundredsof tourists have already insisted. Over the half-worn pavement, andbeneath this arch, the Roman armies had trodden in their outwardmarch, to fight battles, a worlds width away. Returning victorious,with royal captives and inestimable spoil, a Roman triumph, thatmost gorgeous pageant of earthly pride, has streamed and flauntedin hundred-fold succession over these same flagstones, and throughthis yet stalwart archway. It is politic, however, to make few allu-sions to such a past; nor is it wise to suggest how Ciceros feet mayhave stepped on yonder stone, or how Horace was wont to stroll ARCH OF TITUS, 56 CALIGULA. near by, making his footsteps chime with the measure of the odethat was ringing in his mind. The very ghosts of that massive andstately epoch have so much density that the people of to-day seem the thinner of the two, andstand more ghost-like by thearches and columns, lettingthe rich sculpture be dis-cerned through their ill-com-pacted substance. But,pursuing our way up thePalatine, at the right of ourpath now rise up, in threestories, high arches, and dailynew walls come to light ruins belong to theimmense palace which Cal-igula built at the northwestside of the Palatine. Thefront of this palace faced theforum. For Suetonius says,in the biography of thisemperor, that he had ex-tended this side of the Pala-tine, by the help of mightybuttresses, to the forum, andhad made the Temple of Cas-tor and Pollux a vestibuleof the royal palace. Oftent
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