The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02

WHO won Tor Rome Spain and Africa. |
There are the inscriptions which your |
own eyes can read, not many years |
discovered. Before you every day is |
the citadel UP which the Roman mai |
zen, traitress to her country, led the |
Sablnes, hoping to receive what the |
soldier wore on his left arm, and in |
stead of the bracelet she expected, re- |
ceived the th-giving shield. In the |
church of S. Adriano is the former
senate house, where Cicero delivered
Two orations against Cataline and out
In the forum of the Rostra, where he
delivered the second and fourth. Here
was Caesars body displayed, and here
Mark Anthony pronounced that thrill
ing GRAFTON which reused the people
10 such nights that right there in that
most sacred place of gods and god
desses they seized great Caesars body
and cremated it. The very stones are
mere to-day, and the Temple of the
DIVINE Julius erected over it, when
they had defied him and made him a
god. Right there is the Sacred Mary.
ana the arches, three standing and two
down, under which all the triumphant
professions passed, and near at hand
the horrible, foul, damp, ightless
Mamertlno prison. into which, as the
nero passed up the Capitol steps, his
prisoners who had graced his triumph.
no more! So was 1T with Jugurtha. so
with VerciDgetorix, the noble Gaul. of
whom every schoolboy reads and so
with Catalina, who persisted here he
tween the stangulating bars still seen
ana as his body was thrust down into
the Cloaca Maxima. to find it's way TO
the Tfber-such freight did the sew
ers convey in that day!-came Cicero
forth and said: "Vixerunt." thew have
nVR6i ahNl
1rg, that they had got through living,
All this and more is here, upturned
with shovel. and marked with identi-
Tying inscriptions.
During the days of the republic there
were no kings to live upon the Pala.
tine, so the noblest patricians had
there their homes. And kingly men
they were! The ruins of the houses. Of
three men-Cataline, Cicero, CIodius-
We're particularly full of interest.
Neighbors,. with gardens that almost
touched, they became mutually destruc-
tive of each other. Cataline, a young
noble OF patrician rank, took advantage
OF the unrUly spirits ever present in
the republic, and plotted to DESTROY the
state. An ancient anarchist! But by
the energy of Cicero who was consul
al the time, in discovering all the UNI
n
splracy and by his eloquence in per-
suading the Senate and convincing the
plebelans, he overthrow it and de-
stroyed Cataline and his chief conspir-
ators in the Mamertine prison. CIodius
was the lover of Pompeia, wife of Ju-
nus Caesar; she attempted to introduce
him disguised as a female musician to
the orgies of the Bona Dea, at which
nothing masculine was ever present.
not even a male mouse" says Juvenal.
sdared to show itself, there" He was
discovered, and a great scandal fol-
lowed, Caesar divorced his wife, Clio
dius was tried for sacrilege He at
tempted to prove an alibi, but Cicero's
evidence showed that the accused was
with him three hours before he pre-
tended to be at some place many hours
away Result: Two neighbors fell
out, and the undying hostility of Clo-
dius to Cicero, which ended in the lat
ter's Punishment, and the destruction
of his villa on the Palatine.
1t was not long now before the EN-
p1re came, and then the old kingly
hill, whereon no plebs could ever build,
was covered all over with the palaces
of the different Caesars What a royaI
sight it must have been! The other
six hills seem to stand round the Pal
atine to protect it and do, it homage.
The palace of Augustus was begun by
the Senate in honor of the battle of
Actium, and now that there we're en-
porors, down went Catalines house to
make room for it, Augustus always
seemed somewhat of a poseur in his
tory. No big house for him, until the |
servile Senate ordered it. And even
then it was inscribed 1.-The House of |
the Roman People," but very few pie |
beians, l imagine, ever saw the inside |
of it, with its 200 marble statues. And |
this great sensationaIists, at the gate
of this palace, one day in every year, |
sat as a beggar soliciting aims, that he |
might appease Nemesis! don't imag- |
inc the imperial beggar lacked for aims!
Strange to say, it is three old |
ladies, who by continuing to live, pre-
vent this palace from being eXcavated |
in its entirety They are the survivors
of the Order of the Nuns of the WISH |
tation, and their nunnery is built over |
part OF the palace of Augustus: the |
government which has not scrubbed to
confiscate other monasteries and nun |
neries has left thcse threeg sisters I'M |
disturbed. The vesper bell was ringing |
from the nunnery, and our cold blood |
ed archeologist said; 1.-The three old |
ladies are going to prayers-let us hope |
their wings will soon be given them" |
l hope the old ladies will live a long |
time ana NeX a government Wnlcn mas |
confiscated unrighteously so much |
church property!
Then came Tiberius, and he built a
second palace-famous for the scene of |
all his poisonings, until at last, fright
ened to death he left Rome and went |
down to the Island of Capri, where he
lived in constant terror, and finally
drank himself to death. The third
emperor, Caligula, Little Boots as
the soldiers called him-built the superb
palace now being rapidly uncovered.
1t stands on the northern summit of
the Palatine. looking across to the |
Capitol over the countless edifices of
the Roman forum. OF all mad hares,
he was the maddest! He rushed about
in these marble rooms and passages,
astonishing his courtiers by his pranks;
sometimes dressed as a charioteer,
sometimes as warrior frightening
his guests at table by his pleasantries
about his power to cut off their heads.
He took the notion that he was divine
mot So surprising when YOU think how