Physical culture . A DINNER IN THEITIBER r- Roman Water Sports By Raffaele Simboli ANCIENT AND MODERN SPORTS OF THE TIBER. QULD you read the wholehistory of Rome writ-ten on a single page?Gaze at the Tiber. Inits melancholy and si-lent course this river has seen rise andfall into ruins the Eternal City, and itself,an eternal spectator, flows through thecity and on to the sea. Beneath its wa-ters lie buried that Tiberino from whomit took its name; they have put to asevere test the courage of Clelia, thepatriotic love of Horace, and for cen-turies, or until Appius the Blind brought
Physical culture . A DINNER IN THEITIBER r- Roman Water Sports By Raffaele Simboli ANCIENT AND MODERN SPORTS OF THE TIBER. QULD you read the wholehistory of Rome writ-ten on a single page?Gaze at the Tiber. Inits melancholy and si-lent course this river has seen rise andfall into ruins the Eternal City, and itself,an eternal spectator, flows through thecity and on to the sea. Beneath its wa-ters lie buried that Tiberino from whomit took its name; they have put to asevere test the courage of Clelia, thepatriotic love of Horace, and for cen-turies, or until Appius the Blind broughtthe first water into Rome by aqueducts,the Tiber sated the thirst of the the days of the republic the finestbridges were built to span it, and acrossthese bridges passed the soldiers andcavaliers, with the spoils of their ene-mies, proud of their trophies. Still inthe time of the republic its rapid cur-rent swallowed up Tiberius Gracchus andthree thousand of his followers. Fifteen centuries ago the ancientRomans assembled along the river and held noisy entertainments. Amongothers mock combats, like the famousassault upon
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