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.
[Footnote 1: See Pliny's Letter on Minicia Marcella, p. 109.]
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.
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