Identifier: romeitsrisefallt00myer (find matches)
Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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View of the Capitoline. (A Reconstruction.) This assembling-place in later times was enlarged anddecorated with various monuments and surrounded withsplendid buildings and porticoes. It was the centre of mous practical difficulties, which still answers well its purpose, is a workto be classed among the great triumphs of engineering. — Lan£:iani,Ancient Rome in the Light of Rece?tt Discoveries, p. 54. 8 So called because decorated with the beaks (rostra) of war-galleystaken from enemies (see par. 77). 5o ROME AS A KINGDOM. the political, the religious, and the business life of Rome.Here more was said, resolved upon, and done, than uponany other spot in the ancient world. The Senate-house occupied one side of the forum ; andfacing this on the opposite side were the Temple of Vesta
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Rome under the Kings. i. Square Rome (Roma Quadrata), the City of Romulus. 2. The Comitium.3. The Sabine City. 4. The Wall of Servius Tullius. and the palace of the king. Overlooking all from thesummit of the Capitoline was the famous sanctuary calledthe Capitol, or the Capitoline Temple, where beneath thesame roof were the shrines of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva,the three great national deities. ROME UNDER THE KINGS. 51 Upon the level ground between the Aventine and thePalatine was located the Circus Maximus, the GreatCircle, where were celebrated the Roman games. Themost noted of the streets of Rome was the Via Sacra, orSacred Way, which traversed the forum and led up theCapitoline hill to the temple of Jupiter. This was thestreet along which passed the triumphal processions ofthe Roman conquerors. 35. The Reforms of Servius Tullius : the Five Classes andthe Four New Tribes. — It was the second king of theEtruscan house, Servius Tullius by name, to whom tradi-tion attributes a most

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