Identifier: dayinancientrome00lohruoft (find matches)
Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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And how my darling loved me ! How glad she was to hear My footsteps on the threshold, when I came back last year! And how she danced with pleasure to see my civic crown, And took my sword, and hung it up, and brought me forth my gown I Now, all these things are over—yes, all thy pretty ways. Thy needle-work, thy prattle, thy snatches of old lays ; And none will grieve when I go forth, or smile when I return, Or watch beside the old mans bed, or weep upon his urn. The house that was the happiest within the Roman walls, The house that envied not the wealth of Capuas marble halls. Now, for the brightness of thy smile, must have eternal gloom, And for the music of thy voice, the silence of the tomb. —Macaulay, The place in which such exciting scenes could be enacted wascertainly not a favorable place for schools, and the Romans did wellto put them at a distance. The stalls of the fishermen also had to THE FORUM. 43
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44 THE BASILICA JULIA. TEMPLE OF CASTOR. disappear, as more attention was given to the beautifying of thesquare ; only the bankers might remain. Instead of the low shops the elegant pillared halls of the Basil-icas, built after the Greek model, now adorned the forum. Caesarlaid the foundation for the most beautiful at the south side; Augus-tus built it up and called it after his uncle. Basilica Julia. It wasseparated from the gathering place of the people by the Via Sacra,from which a few steps led up to the portico : if you entered at theupper end, you needed to mount only three steps ; but at the lowerend, seven. This riddle would be difficult to solve if you did notknow that the surface of the forum sinks somewhat toward theeast, while the top of the foundation of the Basilica is level. Theroomy interior was used for the transactions of the courts, wascapable of accommodating four law courts consisting of 180 jurymen(judices), and the crowds of spectators, and could be shut off fro
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