. Six and one abroad. ^T Jl^JkJm, The Tragcdi) of the Cataconihs 209 pagna desolation and down to Sonthern Italy, for a distance ofthree hundred miles. It: pavement of lava flagstones may yetbe sc^en in many plaees after the lapse of 2,200 years. AVhatroad is there in America that would have any traces left afterthe elements had beaten and lashed it for twenty centuries?The road was just fifteen feet wide—that is, the paved por-tion—and for the first ten miles was flanked on each side bya paved walk. How those Roman emperors, having won the highest dis-tinctions in the world, dreaded the obliv
. Six and one abroad. ^T Jl^JkJm, The Tragcdi) of the Cataconihs 209 pagna desolation and down to Sonthern Italy, for a distance ofthree hundred miles. It: pavement of lava flagstones may yetbe sc^en in many plaees after the lapse of 2,200 years. AVhatroad is there in America that would have any traces left afterthe elements had beaten and lashed it for twenty centuries?The road was just fifteen feet wide—that is, the paved por-tion—and for the first ten miles was flanked on each side bya paved walk. How those Roman emperors, having won the highest dis-tinctions in the world, dreaded the oblivion of death. Howihey sought to perpetuate themselves in monuments and, tomake cocksure that they would survive the calamity of death,obliterated one after another all monuments, buildings and sel-fish traces left by their predecessors. The Appian Way wasthe most public of public place^ and therefore the fittest spotfor monuments of vain monarchs and notables. How different was this old burial highway of the rich
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