Identifier: dayinancientrome00lohruoft (find matches)
Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re alsoschoolrooms, or, as the Romans called them, ludi ptierorum.How often the children must have stopped at those shops; andamong the butchers, certainly they must have had their specialfriends! It would be interesting to know if the Roman boys thencould beg so winsomely for a Roman penny ( as ), as now for anItalian soldo. Once the children, on their way to school, were greatly terrified.A servant of the dreaded decemvir, Appius Claudius, seized andled away from them their playmate Virginia, and brought her 40 ARREST OF VIRGINIA. before the neighboring tribunal of his patron, asserting thatVirginia, as the daughter of one of his slaves, belonged to him. The city gates were opened : the forum, all aliveWith buyers and with sellers, was humming like a hive.Blithely on brass and timber the craftsmans stroke was ringing,And blithely oer her panniers the market-girl was singing,And blithely young Virginia came smiling from her home:Ah ! wo for young Virginia, the sweetest maid in Rome !
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WAX TABLETS. STYLUS. With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm. Forth she went bounding to the school, nor dreamed of shame or harm. She crossed the forum shining with stalls in alleys gay. And just had reached this very spot whereon I stand this day. When up the varlet Marcus came ; not such as when erewhile He crouched behind his patrons heels with the true clients smile: He came with lowering forehead, swollen features, and clinched fist And strode across Virginias path, and caught her by the v/rist. Hard strove the frighted maiden, and screamed with look aghast; And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast; The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs. And Hanno from the stately booth glittering with Punic wares. TRIAL OF VIRGINIA. 4I And the strong smith Muraena, grasping a half-forged brand, And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand. All came in wrath and wonder; for all knew that fair child; And, as she passed them twice a

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