A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . CAIUS JULIUS C^SAR. THE ATRIUM VESTAE. 49 lately discovered House of the Vestals, between which and theGrove of Vesta on the slope of the Palatine it runs obliquely towardthe southwest. People abroad can not conceive the faintestidea of the impression which every one here felt in stepping over. TEMPLE OF DIVUS JULIUS. TEMPLE OF CASTOR. ARCH OF AUGUSTUS. BASILICA. the threshold of the Atrium Vestae, in entering those, cloisters,the marble population of which is increasing i
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . CAIUS JULIUS C^SAR. THE ATRIUM VESTAE. 49 lately discovered House of the Vestals, between which and theGrove of Vesta on the slope of the Palatine it runs obliquely towardthe southwest. People abroad can not conceive the faintestidea of the impression which every one here felt in stepping over. TEMPLE OF DIVUS JULIUS. TEMPLE OF CASTOR. ARCH OF AUGUSTUS. BASILICA. the threshold of the Atrium Vestae, in entering those, cloisters,the marble population of which is increasing in number and inimportance every day. The noble, dignified portrait-statues ofthe virgines vestales maxwiae (chief vestal virgins) are there stand-ing in long array, ready to welcome the visitors, and glad to haverecovered possession of the house which, for eleven centuries, hasbeen the witness of their joys and sorrows, the depository of theirsecrets, and from which they were brutally expelled in A. D. 394. Now Horace meets us, as in his customary walk he comes downthe Via Sacra. But to-day the poet, usually so cheerful, is in badhumor; for a disagreeable, persistent man, entirely unknown tohim, has intruded himself upon himi, wishes to become his friend,and asks in a very inquisitive way after Maecenas. Horace has, in-deed, already told him that he should not need his company, as hewishes to visit one of h
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