The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-13

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anee has just been made while,
opening in the new Via Naxiona
In the grounds of the Palazzo Au
found perfect arch OF the peri
vius Tullius, about gro r. G.
doubtless, Livy's R0ffa F0afins
led to Arr Naffis V
IL is such discoveries az this
are now of very frequent occurrei
completely upset tue theory OF :
man cities OF high repute, ths
called the early history of Rome
more than collection Of myths
of pure fancy, with hardly a shire,
truth to sustain them.
That there Is vast deal OF
lazy is apparent to every person.
ligently reads his .'pictured page
everything he has told us conc
first period Of Roman developme
ly an ingenious and fascinating
no intelligent reader can be made
Livy was compelled by the nee
the case to trust largely to trad
unQuestionabiy he was freQue
led thereby; but the central &
mitted TO him through this chan
h,m TO US, are constantly receil
nation from the unimpeachsbld
produced BY the pick-ax aud 81
more Rome Is dug rover and into,
does 1t become that the era OF tho -
of the republic did not differ
from what was generally supp6s
the critics Aforesaid began their d
OF accepted history.
No one person can fully realixs
careful personal inspection, how u #
Eternal City is underground.
Forum AZ an illustration. Thi
course, the very center and heac 9
OF the city, but OF the mighty en-
sprung from il. For nearly a
years the laws which governed
emanated from the narrow valle
vided the Paiatiue and the Capiu
and to every Roman this VALID
most sacred spot on earth. Cert
would think, such spot could n
tically thrust out OF sight by the
ing soil yet this was iis fate unit
within the memory of men now
many centuries the very name il
peared, and the place which one
the tread OF Cesar aud rung wit
Of Cicero became the Campo Vaol
tie field. Filled up by the ac
dirt and debris swept into il bJ
breath OF ruin, the Forum Romd
transformed into averdant meadow
identity, and sunk into what thFea
be an everlasting oblivion.
Even as late as Byron's days tht
little to tell OF the giories buried D
the Campo Vaccino.. 'sChilde Hal
splendid verse speaks OF 'sThe mai
column with the buried base !" and moi
1918 was il knpwn-by excavations
at the expense of the Duchess of q
shire-that this column was raised
Exarch Smaragdus, IN COS, 10 the EIl
Phocas.
Chiefly through the generosity and eTl
of the French government the greater
of the Forum is now laid bare; and "
the visitor, standing upon the stones Of
Via Sacra, along which so many laur'
conquerors have marched in trinmphsl
cession TO the temple Of Jupiter Capitoli
looks up to the modern street twenty
feet above him, he can then undersl
how much of old Rome is literally hid
in the grave. At
What has been done IN the Forum
At the foot of the Palatine hill, on the
toward the Tiber, stands the church OF
Anastasia. The present structure was
in 1886, and probably IL had one or 4
predecessors erected on this same fou
tions. What was under these foundat
nobody knew. until 1854, when m
ment was being put up to Cardinal
the celebrated hbfafianof tho Vatican.
The workingmeD, digging deep 20 Sc
a firm toothold for the stately mai
struck upon an old wall whose exist
had never before been suspected. The
covery was promptly followed up by {
full archaeological investigation; and I
we believe, it is conceded by the best
thorities that this old, old wall, under
church Of St. Anastasia, under the brt
arches OF the palace of the Caesars. /
which the church itself was built, is !
other than the veritable wall of Romt
1t has always been admitted that the
settlement of Rome was on the Palai
that here the wolf-n1rsed children
pitched their camp, and planted the hun
seed from whence grew the colossal
whose branches oyer-shadowed half a I
isphere.
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