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4. Victory writing on a tablet.

Visconti. Photograph.

Column of Trajan at Rome. Brunn.

5. Q. Hortensius the orator. Bust in the Villa Albani, Rome. Visconti.

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Plan of Syracuse.

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Photograph.

Coin of Agathocles, King of Syracuse. Obverse: head of Persephone. Reverse: Nike (Victory) setting up a trophy. Head. Bronze door of the Cathedral at Pisa (twelfth century work). Rohault de Fleury, Monuments de Pise. Head of Medusa. Marble mask in the Glyptothek at Munich. Brunn. Doors of Temple of Romulus, with bullae. 12. T. Quinctius Flamininus. From a coin.

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Photograph.
Bernoulli.

Mensae Delphicae. From ancient ornamental marble stands.

De Clarac.

15. Coin of Sex. Pompey. Obverse: pharos of Messana. Reverse:

Scylla..

16. View of Palermo (Panhormus). .

Cohen.

Photograph.

17. Coin of Porcius Læca commemorating the Lex Porcia. Obverse: head of Rome. Reverse allegorical representation of P. Porcius protecting an accused citizen.

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Cappadocian. Bust from Cæsarea; now in the Jakobsen col

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Coin with heads of Servilius Ahala and M. Junius Brutus.

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28. Signa militaria. From coins. 29. The Mamertine prison (Tullianum). Section. Middleton, Rome. 30. The same. Plan. 31. Coin of Sextus Pompey. Obverse: head of Sextus Pompey. Reverse: heads of Sextus Pompey and Pompey the Great.

Middleton, Rome.

Cohen.

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32. Bust of L. Junius Rusticus (Stoic philosopher of the time of Domitian), showing a rough "philosophic beard."

33. Statue of an unknown Roman with the toga.

Visconti.

34. Coin of C. Clodius. Obverse: head of Flora. Reverse: Vestal with simpulum (sacrificial ladle).

35. Writing implements: atramentarium (for black and red ink); papyrus letter sealed and addressed; tabellae and stilus. Wall

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36. Romulus and Remus with the wolf. Museum, Rome.

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Lectisternium.

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Brunn.

Cohen.

Overbeck's Pompeii.

Bronze in the Capitoline

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38. Coin of P. Licinius Crassus Junianus. Obverse: head of Jupiter. Reverse: balance; cornucopia; curule chair.

39. Pompeian shop (restored).

Cohen.

Baumeister.

40. Plan showing the arrangement of Pompeian shops along the

streets.

Baumeister.

41.

Bronze brazier (focus), from the baths of Pompeii.

Photograph.

42. Sarcophagus of Scipio Barbatus. With a bust formerly identified with Ennius. .

Photograph.

43. Coin of Cato Uticensis. Obverse: head of Liberty. Reverse: Victory seated.

44. Writing Implements: tablets (tabellae), inkstands (atramentaria), pens (stili), papyrus rolls (volumina), box for holding rolls (scrinium); also money bags (sacculi) and coins (nummi). Wall painting.

Cohen.

Museo Borbonico.

45. Girl Writing a Letter (showing tabellae and stilus). Wall painting.

Museo Borbonico.

46. Coin of Brutus and Casca. Obverse: head of Brutus. Reverse:

trophy, shields, etc.

47. Edile opening the games. Ancient statue.

49. L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (from a coin).

48. Coin of Mark Antony and his Brother Lucius.

50. Coin of Lepidus and Octavianus as Triumvirs.

51. Coin of Pansa.

Cohen Photograph.

Visconti.

Cohen.

Cohen.

Cohen.

52. Coin of Q. Cassius. Obverse: head of Liberty. Reverse (in memory of the condemnation of the Vestals by L. Cassius Longinus, prætor B.C. 113): temple of Vesta, with curule chair, voting urn, juror's ballot marked A (absolvo), and C (condemno): see p. lxv.

Cohen.

Imperium Romanum

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Latium.

Aegaeum Mare .

LIST OF MAPS.

EXPLANATION OF THE VIEW OF THE FORUM.

The background shows the southeasterly side of the Capitol The blank wall in the centre is the rear of the Palazzo dei Senator stands on the saddle between the two summits (inter duos lucos lower part of this wall is very old, and is commonly supposed to wall of the Tabularium, or Record Office.

The modern buildings on the right occupy the site of the ancient (Arx); those on the left, that of the Capitolium. In front, p against the wall of the Tabularium, is, on the right, the Column of a late monument of slight importance; at the left of that are the the Temple of Vespasian (three Corinthian columns, of which o show in the view); farther to the left is a ruin with eight Ionic colu the Temple of Saturn, built in the time of the Empire on the sit earlier Temple of Saturn, which served during the Republic as th rium, or Treasury. Below, at the right of the picture, is the Septimius Severus: this probably occupies part of the space of the Senaculum, or gathering-place of the Senators. Below the Temple front of the Arch is the open space of the Forum, distinguishable flagging here stood the Rostra. To the left, below the Temple of are the ruins of the Basilica Iulia. At the extreme left of the pic the foreground, are three Corinthian columns, the only remains famous Temple of Castor. Near the point where the spectator posed to stand are the ruins of the Atrium Vestae and the Regi

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