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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the conclusion, of course, is taken from a letter of the yonng-er Pliny,the adopted son of his uncle. A second letter. de.<cribinU.J .Etna sent forth so much watery vapour that thisvapour, after cooling in the upper regions of the atmosphere and descending in the form ofrain upon the mountain, covered it with about 28,000 cubic yards of water. A similar factoccurs in all eruptions. In a.d. 70 this torrent fell upon Jlerculaneum, carrying v.ith itenormous masses of ciiidor.s. which filled up the streets, covered the houses, and rose from .50to 40 feet above the hitrhest huildinirs. TITUS AND DOMITIAX, 79 TO 96 A.D. 083 token found at Pompeii were marked the place where its possessorwas to sit and the title of a comedy of riautiis, Casl)ti(, wliicli wasperhaps given the evening before the city perished. Two-fifths of Pompeii are now cleared, and the visitor has tlie
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J^kiliMi^fcl^vflt^ Street in P(.mipeii.^ strange spectacle of a Roman city coming to light after eighteen centuries : a small city to be sure, with small houses, narrow streets, monuments devoid of grandeur, art without splendour though not without grace, and yet all this produces a profoundimpression.^ We give a cbromo-lithograpbic impression of the fresco of Orplieus fliscovered in 1>74 atPompeii, not on acconnt of its value as a work of art, but because tbo early Christians adoptedthe myth of Orpheus to represent Christ subduing fiery passions, and because tliey reproducedit on their tombs. - The greater part oî the inluibitants of Pompeii succeeded in escaping Avith their riches,or returned to seek them by entering through the upper stories (houses with three storieswere rare). Still, a certain number perished. Some AOO or 600 skeletons have already beenfound, although half of the city has not yet been searched. Cf. Bei^criztone di Fompei, byM. Fiurelli, who is so skilfullv su

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