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CALPJS, OR WATER-JAR.
CHAPTER LIX.
ROME.
Tokens of the dead :—the wondrous fame
Of the past world ....
Traditions dark and old, whence evil creeds
Start forth.
Shelley.
These are sad and sepulchral pitchers, silently expressing old mortality, the ruins
of forgotten times.
Sir Thomas Bbowne.
I had intended treating of Rome as an Etruscan city,
pointing out facts both in her early history and in her
local remains, which authorise us so to regard her. But
this would lead me into too discursive a field for the limits
of this work, and I am compelled to confine myself to
notice the Etruscan relics stored in her museums. These
CHAPTER LIX.
ROME.
Tokens of the dead :—the wondrous fame
Of the past world ....
Traditions dark and old, whence evil creeds
Start forth.
Shelley.
These are sad and sepulchral pitchers, silently expressing old mortality, the ruins
of forgotten times.
Sir Thomas Bbowne.
I had intended treating of Rome as an Etruscan city,
pointing out facts both in her early history and in her
local remains, which authorise us so to regard her. But
this would lead me into too discursive a field for the limits
of this work, and I am compelled to confine myself to
notice the Etruscan relics stored in her museums. These