A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway (1885) (14591826269)

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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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rtance every day. The noble, dignified portrait-statues ofthe virgines vestales maxwiae (chief vestal virgins) are there stand-ing in long array, ready to welcome the visitors, and glad to haverecovered possession of the house which, for eleven centuries, hasbeen the witness of their joys and sorrows, the depository of theirsecrets, and from which they were brutally expelled in A. D. 394. Now Horace meets us, as in his customary walk he comes downthe Via Sacra. But to-day the poet, usually so cheerful, is in badhumor; for a disagreeable, persistent man, entirely unknown tohim, has intruded himself upon himi, wishes to become his friend,and asks in a very inquisitive way after Maecenas. Horace has, in-deed, already told him that he should not need his company, as hewishes to visit one of his acquaintances on the farther side of theTiber. But the fib was of no avail, for the new friend will go so faras to let a summons to court be disregarded, if he may only accom- 50 HORACES ADVENTURE.
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QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. pany the poet. Horace is in the greatest perplexity, and is besidesvery angry because the roguish Fuscus, whom he had secretly greetedas his deliverer, makes merry over him, and will not understandgrimaces and winks, but hastens away with a very poor excuse.The new friends have just reached the Temple of Vesta, and HORACES NINTH SATIRE. 51 Horace knows that he must endure the persistent man an hourlonger, in case that bore succeeds in getting by the court-house(Basi/ica) unnoticed into the Tuscan quRVter (Vicus Tiisciis). For-tunately, just there the enemy of this deserter meets them, anddrags him before the nearest tribunal. But Horace continues hiswalk, and laughs now himself over his misfortune. His gay spiritshave returned, and let him find amends for the lost time by work-ing out some charming verses, with which he will, at the earliestopportunity, relate his experience to a gay circle of friends. Walking by chance in the Sacred Street, I, true to my hab