. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . Cinerary urns, reproducing; the form of the cottages constructed by the ancient of Latium. mount. Montesquieu well observes, We must not form the ideaof the city of Rome at its beginning from the t(A\Tis of thepresent day, imless it be those of the Crimea, made to containphmder, cattle, and the fruits of the soil. The Xo\\ti had noteven streets, unless we give this name to the continuationof the roads which terminated therein. Tlie houses were verysmall or placed irregularly. Un


. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . Cinerary urns, reproducing; the form of the cottages constructed by the ancient of Latium. mount. Montesquieu well observes, We must not form the ideaof the city of Rome at its beginning from the t(A\Tis of thepresent day, imless it be those of the Crimea, made to containphmder, cattle, and the fruits of the soil. The Xo\\ti had noteven streets, unless we give this name to the continuationof the roads which terminated therein. Tlie houses were verysmall or placed irregularly. Until the Avar with Pyrrhus thesehouses were only covered with ])laiiks,- which woidd give credence Cinerary urns in terra-cotta, containing cahiued bones, recently found under the deepestlava of the Alban mount, consequently of great antiquity, and reproducing the foim of thecottages constructed by the most ancient inhabitants of Latium. (lieiue archeolwj-, May, 1876,338). - Pliuy, Ilht. Sat., xvi. 1-5. 138 ROME rXDER THE KINGS. to the tradition that after tlie Inirniiig of Eome l>v tlie Gaulson


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