Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-12-15

games. On the pavement you see
where gaming tables have been cut
with knife, and you read the In
scription near by:
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Venari, Lavari, Ledere
Ribere, DC Est Vivere
By Interpretation, "to hunt, to ba1ne,
to play, to laugh-that is to live"
This phrase, carved upon pavement
slab, around bird pecldng at flow
er, doubtless sums up the life of a
rich Timgad patrician.
One should go rambling haphazard
along the white streets of the ~.
What surprising rencontresi VIVA: E.
minders of the pasti From the thea
ter, with its twenty-five tiers, to Ira
janis triumphal arch, you pass before
baths whose rooms are covered with
mosaic and nefore houses that were
provided with every imaginable COM
fort-courts and gardens, pools, FISH
tanks, storeroo ms and baths.
Remains of the Capitol.
The street of he capitol is perhaps
the most impressive. 1t runs from
north to south between the little tenn
pie of ."The Genius of the Colony"
whose pronaos was supported by Cor
inthian columns that have been re-
erected, and Trajan's arch, which in
point of size dominates all the other
monuments of the city. There the
street broadens out and takes the pro-
portions of square in front of the
propylea of the capitol
The capitol! What remains of it?
TIE twelve columns of the peristyle,
the foundations of the altar and a
porch of forty steps, surmounted by
two superb columns nearly forty feet
high. The attic and the slabs that
supported it lie in the dust; the gal
leries are broken through, the sacred
enclosure choked with stones, and
the colossal statues of Juno and Mi
nerva have vanished But how huge
these ruins are and how magnificent
ly they proclaim the power of Rome
and her gratitude to the colonys
tutelary divinities!
Let us halt before the public mar
ket beside the street we have been
following. The tables on which the
market people exposed their wares
are still in place. In the center OF a
court paved with blue stones and sur
rounded with a portico was a foun-
tain. Awnings to shelter the vendors
were upheld by slender columns. Fur
Their on we come to the house of the
gardeners, so ,prettily decorated with
tutelary d.vinitiesl
Springs in the gorges of the Ain
Morris supplied the city, furnishing
all tie v alter needed for the baths,
founslins. markets. public editices ana
dwellings. After washing the streets,
the -eter passed through aqueducts
and vers to replenish the gardens
of tt outlying districts. 1t was one
of the finest things about this city of
the desert that its streets were al
ways white and clean, it's squares
cooled by FLASHING fountains, its sur
rounding country gay with greenery.
When and Why It Was Destroyed?
These abundant waters were the
very life of Timgad When the first
Berber -ders swooped down, the
city of Trajan was sacked, but as the
aqueduets were not destroyed, water
still flowed in from the Ain-Morris.
In the immense desert that reaches
down from the mountains Of the
Aures toward Batna. Thamugadi re-
NAMED a sort Of oasis. 1t emerged
from its ruins. A christian CRY,
smaller but beautiful and fiourishlng,
took the place of the Roman town.
Then arose the basilcas. the baptist
cries, and the converts whose fmpos-