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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n detail in hisfecial article on the old ara maxima (Annali delV Istituto archeologico, 1854, p. 28 ff.).Sidonius, i, Ep., 6, adEutropium (P. £., LVIIL, 455 ; Luetjohann, p. 9).VOL. I. I i3o ROME AND THE POPES (No. 93 started off with his Gallic or Germanic retinue, and that thevisitors were totally unacquainted with Roman life and manners.What a contrast this city and its inhabitants would furnish totheir surroundings at home! In what follows we shall give a fewdetails such as may be found in abundance in the writers of theperiod. Let the reader regard them as they would have beenregarded by those travellers to whom classical life was somethingabsolutely novel. It may even be new to some people of ourown day to find how pertinaciously certain customs of early timeshad remained rooted at Rome, whilst elsewhere the whole aspectof the world had been transformed. 93. Beginning with that focus of the life of ancient Rome, wefind that the Thermae are still thronged. Attendance at the bath
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111. 23.—The Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus at the Time of its Splendour.An attempt at reconstruction.1 constitutes a regular feature of social life, though well-conductedChristians do not frequent all the baths indiscriminately. Weknow, for instance, that Consentius, a friend of Sidonius, waswont to visit those only where privacy protects Christianmodesty. These he prefers to the Thermae which Nero andAgrippa bestowed upon the City, and which the Emperor, whosebust adorns Salona (Diocletian), bequeathed to the citizens. 1 Drawing by the painter Marola after Rebers sketch for the panorama of Rome;under Constantine (1888). In many respects the construction since made by Pau;Aucler, S.J., in his work, Rome, restauration archeologique (Paris, 1899), approaches monclosely to the truth. The present figure is, however, sufficiently accurate for our purpose 2 Carmen, 23, ad Consentiwn, v. 495 ff. (P. L., LVIIL, 744; Luetjohann, 261). no. 94) CLASSICISM 131 These vast Imperial baths were the

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