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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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asylum ! hail to the hill-tops seven !Hail to the fire that burns for aye, and the shield that fell from heaven!This day, by Lake Regillus, under the Porcian height. ■^HE GODS AS MESSENGERS OF VICTORY. 47 All in the lands of Tusculum, was fought a glorious fight.To-morrow your Dictator shall bring in triumph homeThe spoils of thirty cities to deck the shrines of Rome !Then burst from the great concourse a shout that shook the towers,And some ran north and some ran south, crying The day is ours !But on rode those strange horsemen, with slow and lordly pace;And none who saw their bearing durst ask their name or race.On rode they to the forum, while laurel-boughs and flowers,From house-tops and from windows, fell on their crest in showers.When they drew nigh to Vesta, they vaulted down amain,And washed their horses in the well that springs by Vestas fane.And straight again they mounted, and rode to Vestas door;Then, like a blast, away they passed, and no man saw them more. —Macaulay.
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Arch of Augustus. Temple of Vesta.Temple Divus Julius, SOUTH-EAST FORUM. Temple of Castor. Basilica. The Temple of Castor and Pollux was so spacious that often thesessions of the Senate were held there, and the statesmen liked toaddress the people from the steps of the sanctuary. Julius Caesarespecially liked to talk here, and in remembrance of that, Augustushad a rostrum placed near the temple, which he built directly 48 TEMPLUM DIVI JULII. ARCH OF AUGUSTUS. opposite it in honor of Divus Jtclius. The front of this rostrumwas adorned with beaks of ships captured at Actium. Just beyondwas the Arch of Augustus. Face to face stood the ancient RepubHc and the young Empire,for on the further side of the square, below the Capitol, was the Rostra, with trophies ofthe victories of the Re-public ; on this sideshone the evidences ofthe glory of the Julianfamily, who throughtheir buildings alwaysstrove to draw the atten-tion of the people moreand more away from theancient Republic. On account of

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