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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finitely rich, it has now become a beggar, andexcites our compassion by its threadbare garments. Only theproud remembrance of its youth remains. A wonderful thing isthis Forum Romanum. If we contemplate it from our present ele-vation, and, as if riveted to the ground, find that we cannot turnour eyes from it, suddenly the solitude beneath us will becomealive. Mighty temples arise from the depth before our rapt gaze,and triumphal arches again span the sacred street. Now the people, also, come back to our view. Silently andgravely the priests are ascending the steps of the lofty temples;the business-man hastens to the stall of the money-changer, and issoon in animated conversation with the greedy banker. Thought-less idlers are sauntering about in the paved square, discussing withimportant air the events of the day. But suddenly everybodyturns toward the sacred street (Via Sacra). The Commander-in-chief of the Army (Imperator), returning home in triumph, is 20 THE FORUM IN FESTAL ATTIRE
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u THE CARCER. 21 approaching from the eastern hills. The procession is headed bythe Senate, who, in festal robes, have received the conqueror and hisarmy at the gate of the city. Next come the trumpeters. Behindthese are creaking the wagons laden with booty ; and here andthere among them are seen, towering up boastfully, the litters withthe more precious pieces of booty carried on the shoulders ofsturdy men. As the wagons approach the crowd, every man stretches hisneck to read, from the tablets carried on high, what province hasbeen subdued, how much booty has been taken, and to whom thecostly weapons and coats-of-arms had formerly belonged. Thenoisy crowd becomes more silent on the approach of the priests,the bullock adorned with white ribbons in their midst; but loudshouts of joy break forth to greet the conqueror as he proceeds onhis way to the Capitol, clad in an embroidered toga, and borneupon a triumphal chariot, which is adorned with ivory, and drawn byfour horses. Joy and prid

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