A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . in just indignation : O wretchedfellow, whether these proceedings are unknown to you—you know,indeed, nothing that is good—or if they are known, since you speakso impudently in the presence of such men ! Quis cnim cqtiesRnmanus, qiiis practcr tc adulescens iiobilis, quis nllius ordiHis, qui se THE COLUMN OF PHOCAS. 3S civein esse mcminissct, cum senatus in hoc tcmplo csset in Clivo Capito-lino non fuit ? Who in those days would have been loath to have hisname enrolled as o
A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar SShumway .. . in just indignation : O wretchedfellow, whether these proceedings are unknown to you—you know,indeed, nothing that is good—or if they are known, since you speakso impudently in the presence of such men ! Quis cnim cqtiesRnmanus, qiiis practcr tc adulescens iiobilis, quis nllius ordiHis, qui se THE COLUMN OF PHOCAS. 3S civein esse mcminissct, cum senatus in hoc tcmplo csset in Clivo Capito-lino non fuit ? Who in those days would have been loath to have hisname enrolled as one ready to guard with arms the fatherlands weal ?Ay, there were not scribescnouL;h ; the tablets suf-ficed not for recording thenames of those that pre-sented themselves. Since at the above-mentioned area of thetwelve chief deities oradvising gods {Dii Consen-tcs) the new street is builtover the old, we must hereturn ; on our way backwe look for awhile at theworkmen, who, just underthe road which leadsol)liqucly across theforum, are bringing tolight remains of wallsdatinsj from the Middle Ages, and then digging.
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