. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . um camethe piifio of the Spaniards, or Moors, and the Catholic ^ut Avhilst the Romans ])laced their tombs on the surface of thesoil as Ave do, the Etruscans dug fimereal chambers underground, orin the rocky sides of tlieir hills. Soiiu of these, as for instancein the valley of Castel dAsso, haAc a singular likeness to thoseAvhich are seen at Thebes in Egypt. Sometimes they raised strangestructiucs OAcr the excavation Avhich contained their dead, of AAhichthe fabulous tomb of Rorseu
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . um camethe piifio of the Spaniards, or Moors, and the Catholic ^ut Avhilst the Romans ])laced their tombs on the surface of thesoil as Ave do, the Etruscans dug fimereal chambers underground, orin the rocky sides of tlieir hills. Soiiu of these, as for instancein the valley of Castel dAsso, haAc a singular likeness to thoseAvhich are seen at Thebes in Egypt. Sometimes they raised strangestructiucs OAcr the excavation Avhich contained their dead, of AAhichthe fabulous tomb of Rorseuna Avould be the most complete repre- [This was mainly the result of the wide soparation of the pillars, whicli {five the Einiseanstyle a feeble and sprawling- look as compared with tlie Greek. Tlie effect of wiilening llieseinter-columnar spaces is very marked.—BdJ] [More probably this method of house-building was common to all the Aryans of SouthernEurope, certainly to the Homeric Greeks, as well as the Italians. It is the form now adoptedall through the ^lediterranean countries.—Ed,^ \,, J,. THE Ixxxiii seutation, if the description wliieli the ancients have left Cduhlbe reduced to the conditions of probability. Yarro, if Plin}- has copied him accurately, had made himselfthe echo of vague mcmori(^s -which tradition had preserved andembellished in its o^ni fashion. rorsenna, says he was buriedbeneath the town of Clusium, in the place where he had causeda square monument of hewn stone to be built. Each face is 300feet long and 50 feet high. The base, which is square, enclosedan inextricable labyrinth. If anyone entered it without a ball ofthread, he coidd not regain the outlet. Above this square are fivepyramids, four at the angles and one in the middle, each 75 feetbroad at the base, and a 150 feet high; so exactly equal thatwith their summits they all bear a globe of brass and a kindof cap, from which bells are suspended by chains, wliich whenmoved by the
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