Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 / Studies from the Chronicles of Rome

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1899 All rights reserved Copyright, 1898, By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped October, 1898. Reprinted November, December, 1898. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

VOLUME I

VOLUME I


1. Ampère—Histoire Romaine à Rome. Ampère—L'Empire Remain à Rome. 2. Baracconi—I Rioni di Roma. 3. Boissier—Promenades Archéologiques. 4. Bryce—The Holy Roman Empire. 5. Cellini—Memoirs. 6. Coppi—Memoire Colonnesi. 7. Fortunato—Storia delle vite delle Imperatrici Romane. 8. Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 9. Gnoli—Vittoria Accoramboni. 10. Gregorovius—Geschichte der Stadt Rom. 11. Hare—Walks in Rome. 12. Josephus—Life of. 13. Lanciani—Ancient Rome. 14. Leti—Vita di Sisto V. 15. Muratori—Scriptores Rerum Italicarum. Muratori—Annali d'Italia. Muratori—Antichità Italiane. 16. Ramsay and Lanciani—A Manual of Roman Antiquities. 17. Schneider—Das Alte Rom. 18. Silvagni—La Corte e la Società Romana.

PALATINE HILL AND MOUTH OF THE CLOACA MAXIMA
The story of Rome is the most splendid romance in all history. A few shepherds tend their flocks among volcanic hills, listening by day and night to the awful warnings of the subterranean voice,—born in danger, reared in peril, living their lives under perpetual menace of destruction, from generation to generation. Then, at last, the deep voice swells to thunder, roaring up from the earth's heart, the lightning shoots madly round the mountain top, the ground rocks, and the air is darkened with ashes. The moment has come. One man is a leader, but not all will follow him. He leads his small band swiftly down from the heights, and they drive a flock and a little herd before them, while each man carries his few belongings as best he can, and there are few women in the company. The rest would not be saved, and they perish among their huts before another day is over.