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Rome.

How the Roman Spent his Year. William F. Allen. Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. xxxiii, p. 347.

Christmas Holidays in Rome.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. iv.

A Christmas Hymn.

Alfred Dommett.

The Roman Carnival.

Pictures from Italy. Charles Dickens. P. 116.

St. Valentine's Day in Rome.

St. Valentine's Day. Keziah Shelton. Chautauqua. Vol. xvi, p. 604.

Poem.—Pompey's Christmas.

Carolyn Wells. St. Nicholas. Vol. xxvii, p. 154.

Poem.—A Roman Valentine.

Emma D. Banks's Original Recitations. P. 91.

The Liberalia.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 87.

The Lupercalia.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara E. Clement. Vol. i, p. 48.

Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. Pp. 36, 161.

Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. Harry Thurston Peck. P. 979.

The Saturnalia.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 193.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. v.

Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler, Chap. x.

Christmas Throughout Christendom. O. M. Spencer. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xlvi, p. 241.

December and its Festivals. Pamela M. Cole. Chautauqua. Vol. xvi, p. 343.

A Roman Triumph.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 83.

The Floralia.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. P. 202.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 57.

Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. Harry Thurston Peck. P. 677.

Poem.—Holy-cross Day.

Robert Browning.

FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND BURIAL PLACES

"Reddenda est terra terrae."

The Roman's Belief Concerning Death.

Caesar. A Sketch. James Anthony Froude. Pp. 60, 530.

The Ancient City. Fustel De Coulanges. Chap. i.

The Preparation of the Body for Burial.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 592.

Roman Funerals.

The Old Romans at Home. Benson J. Lossing. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xlvi, p. 183.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara E. Clement. Vol. i, p. 67.

Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 494.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. xii.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 507.

The Funeral of Gallus.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 144.

The Funeral of Misenus.

The Aeneid. Vergil. Book vi, 212 ff.

The Funeral of Julius Caesar.

Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 157.

Caesar. A Sketch. James Anthony Froude. Chap xxvii.

The Catacombs of Rome.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 300.

The Catacombs of Rome. Wm. Withrow. Chautauqua. Vol. ii, p. 103.

Marble Faun. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chap. iii.

Poem.—The Antique Sepulcher.

Poetical Works. Mrs. Hemans. P. 235.

The Burial Place of Augustus.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 130.

Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 50.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 254.

The Tomb of Hadrian.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. Pp. 238, 285.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 262.

The Tomb of Cecilia Metella.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 172.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 253.

Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 342.

Childe Harold. Lord Byron. Canto iv, xcix-civ.

The Tomb of Minicia Marcella.1

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 279.

Tomb Inscriptions and Memorial Structures.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 387.

The Old Romans at Home. Benson J. Lossing. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xlvi, p. 184.

The Burial of a Young Roman Girl.

The Old Romans at Home. Benson J. Lossing. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xlvi, p. 183.

Epitaph on Erotion, six years of age.

Martial.

Poem.—Tartarus.

Complete Poetical Works. Oliver Wendell Holmes. P. 196.

ROMAN GAMES

"Ast ubi me fessum sol acrior ire lavatum
Admonuit, fugio campum lusumque trigonem."

—Horace

Roman Games.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. vi.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. ix.

Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. x.

Roman Games. Vincenzo Fiorentino. Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxxiv, p. 269.

The Games of the Amphitheater.

Society in Rome under the Caesars. William Ralph Inge. Chaps. iii, viii.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. ix.

Common Sports in Ancient Rome.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. xxii.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. Pp. 398, 500.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 546.

A Day of Sport in the Campus Martius.

Second Latin Book. Miller and Beeson. Introduction, p. 36.

The Chariot Race.

Ben Hur. Lew Wallace. Chap. xiv, p. 368.

Ancient Sports in Rome To-day.

Current Literature. Vol. xxxiii, p. 325.

The Theater.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. viii.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 565.

Society in Rome under the Caesars. William Ralph Inge. P. 222.

"Morra" Illustrated.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. P. 123.

Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 675.

Society in Rome under the Caesars. William Ralph Inge. Chap viii.

SOME FAMOUS BUILDINGS OF ANCIENT ROME "The world has nothing else like the Pantheon."

—Hawthorne

The Pantheon.

A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 9.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 283.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 249.

Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 541.

Lord Byron's Description of the Pantheon.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 251.

Childe Harold. Lord Byron. Canto iv, cxlvi.

The Coliseum.

The Life of the Greeks and the Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 434

Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. Pp. 125, 158.

Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chap. ix.

The Marble Faun. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chap. xvii.

Dickens' Visit to the Coliseum.

Pictures from Italy. Charles Dickens. P. iii.

Hawthorne's Impressions of the Arch of Titus.

A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 54.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 425.

The Coliseum, a Fragment of a Romance.

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Harry Buxton Forman. Vol. iii, p. 27.

SOME FAMOUS ROMAN LETTERS "The authors who have lived and written under an Italian sky, are reticent and shy in the foreign schoolroom. But if we transfer ourselves with them to the market and enter their families, then they grow confiding and social."

—Shumway

The Writing and Sending of Letters.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 287.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 530.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 541.

Some Roman Letters from the Bible.

Bible. Acts, Chap. xxiii, 25 ff.

Bible. Acts, Chap. xxvii.

A Letter Written by Cicero to his Wife.

Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. P. 206.

A Letter Written by Cicero Describing his Return from Exile.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 238.

A Letter from Pliny the Younger to Trajan, "On the Christians."

Illustrated History of Ancient Literature. John D. Quackenbos. P. 418.

Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 250.

A Love Letter from Pliny the Younger to his Wife.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 287.

Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 241.

A Famous Literary Antique.—The Letter of Consolation written by Servius Sulpicius to Cicero upon the death of Tullia.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 251.

A Letter by Cicero Describing Caesar's Visit at Cicero's Home.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 244.

Letter of a Schoolboy.

Source Book of Roman History. Dana C. Munro. P. 197.

SOME ANCIENT ROMANS OF FAME "They were a great race, not unworthy of their fame,—those ancient Romans; and Alpine flowers of moral beauty bloomed amid the Alpine snow and ice of their austere pride."

—Wilkinson, p. 274

Ancient Nicknames.

Ancient Nicknames. W. W. Story. Chautauqua. Vol. xi, p. 241.

A Conversation Between Cicero and Atticus.

A Roman Holiday Twenty Centuries Ago. W. W. Story. Atlantic Monthly. Vol. xliii, p. 273.

Horatius, the Patriot.

Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 16.

Poetical Works. Thomas Babington Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome, p. 31.

Caius Verres, the Grafter.

Caesar. A Sketch. James Anthony Froude. Chap. ix.

Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. Chap. iv.

Pompey, Fortune's Favorite.

A Friend of Caesar. William Stearns Davis. Chap. vi, p. 102.

Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. Chap. ix.

Great Captains: Caesar. Theodore A. Dodge. Chap. ii.

Maecenas, the Gentleman of Leisure.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 161.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 177.

Poem.—Perdidi Diem.

Poetical Works. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 32.

Catiline, the Conspirator.

Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. P. 135.

Harper's Dictionary of Ancient Literature and Antiquities. Harry Thurston Peck. P. 296.

Cato, the Upright.

A History of Roman Literature. Charles Thomas Cruttwell. P. 95.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 525.

Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 97.

Great Captains: Caesar. Theodore A. Dodge. Chap. xii.

Pliny the Elder as Described by Pliny the Younger.

A History of Roman Literature. Charles Thomas Cruttwell. P. 403.

Pliny the Younger at Home.

Peeps at Many Lands. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. iii.

Society in Rome under the Caesars. William Ralph Inge. Chap. v.

Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 279.

A ROMAN BANQUET "None of my friends shall in his cups talk treason."

—Martial

Roman Cookery.

The Old Romans at Home. Benson J. Lossing. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xlvi, p. 66.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. viii.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 501.

The Meals and Menus.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 451.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, pp. 523, 533.

The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. p. 501.

The Use of Iced Water.

Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 185.

Martial's Preparation for a Banquet.

The Epigrams of Martial. Book x: xlviii.

Entertainments at Banquets.

Letter of Pliny the Younger. Translation in Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 247.

To Theopompus, a Handsome Youth Become a Cook.

The Epigrams of Martial. Book x: lxvi.

Dido's Banquet.

The Aeneid. Vergil. Book i, 695-756.

A Banquet at the Home of Lentulus.

Gallus. W. A. Becker. Scene 9.

The Cost of High Living in Old Rome.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, pp. 524, 527, 535.

At Trimalchio's Dinner. (Petronius, Satire 41.)

Trimalchio's Dinner. (Translation) Harry Thurston Peck.

Masterpieces of Latin Literature. Gordon J. Laing. P. 389.

The Bill of Fare at a Banquet at which Caesar Served.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 533.

ROMAN ROADS "Could the entire history of the construction of Roman military roads and highways be written, it would include romantic tales of hazard and adventure, of sacrifice and suffering, which would lend to the subject a dignity and effectiveness somewhat in keeping with their value to Rome and to the world."

—Clara Erskine Clement

Military Roads.

Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 104.

Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 484.

Lectures. John L. Stoddard. Vol. viii, p. 301.

The Roman as a Road Builder.

The Roman Road Builders' Message to America. Archer B. Hulbert. Chautauqua. Vol. xliii, p. 133.

The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 282.

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