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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. I.
and in poetry, diametrically opposite to greatness
and to sublimity. In fine, it cannot be denied,
that the superstructure is in all three too massive
for the order, and too much encumbered with
coats of arms and other supernumerary decora-
tions. Yet notwithstanding- these faults, and they
are not inconsiderable, while the spectator sits on
the marble border of the basin, and contemplates
the elevation of the columns, the magnitude of
the edifices, the richness of the materials, the
workmanship of the statues, and above all, the
deluge of waters poured round him, the defects
are lost in the beauties and criticism subsides in
admiration.
TOMBS.
In ancient times the bodies of the deceased
were deposited without the walls, generally along
the most frequented roads, where their tombs
arose at intervals and under various forms, shaded
by cypresses and other funereal plants, and ex-
hibited on both sides a long and melancholy
border of sorrow and of mortality. Few persons
were allowed the honor of being buried in the
city or in the Campus Martins, and of the few
tombs raised within its space during the republic,
one only remains in a narrow street, the Macello
di Corvi, near the Capitoline hill. It is of a
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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. I.
and in poetry, diametrically opposite to greatness
and to sublimity. In fine, it cannot be denied,
that the superstructure is in all three too massive
for the order, and too much encumbered with
coats of arms and other supernumerary decora-
tions. Yet notwithstanding- these faults, and they
are not inconsiderable, while the spectator sits on
the marble border of the basin, and contemplates
the elevation of the columns, the magnitude of
the edifices, the richness of the materials, the
workmanship of the statues, and above all, the
deluge of waters poured round him, the defects
are lost in the beauties and criticism subsides in
admiration.
TOMBS.
In ancient times the bodies of the deceased
were deposited without the walls, generally along
the most frequented roads, where their tombs
arose at intervals and under various forms, shaded
by cypresses and other funereal plants, and ex-
hibited on both sides a long and melancholy
border of sorrow and of mortality. Few persons
were allowed the honor of being buried in the
city or in the Campus Martins, and of the few
tombs raised within its space during the republic,
one only remains in a narrow street, the Macello
di Corvi, near the Capitoline hill. It is of a
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