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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
=The Riverside Press, Cambridge=
1893

Copyright, 1892,
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROME FROM A PAGAN INTO A CHRISTIAN
CITY 1

CHAPTER II.
PAGAN SHRINES AND TEMPLES 51

CHAPTER III.
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES 107

CHAPTER IV.
IMPERIAL TOMBS 168

CHAPTER V.
PAPAL TOMBS 209

CHAPTER VI.
PAGAN CEMETERIES 253

CHAPTER VII.
CHRISTIAN CEMETERIES 306

LUDI SAECULARES, INSCRIPTION EDITED BY MOMMSEN 362

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FULL-PAGE PLATES.

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BATTLE BETWEEN CONSTANTINE AND MAXENTIUS (from a painting
by Giulio Romano, Francesco Penni, and Raffaellino del Colle)
(_Heliotype_) _Frontispiece_

ARCH OF CONSTANTINE 20

THE TRANSLATION OF S. CYRIL'S REMAINS (fresco in S. Clemente,
done at the order of Maria Macellaria) 32

THE WESTERN SUMMIT OF THE CAPITOLINE HILL 86

PANEL FROM THE ARCH OF MARCUS AURELIUS (_Heliotype_) 90

PLAN OF SCHOLA ABOVE THE CATACOMBS OF CALLIXTUS (from
Nortet's _Les Catacombes Romaines_) 118

PLAN OF OLD S. PETER'S, SHOWING ITS RELATION TO THE
CIRCUS OF NERO 128

PLAN OF THE GRAVES SURROUNDING THAT OF S. PETER DISCOVERED
AT THE TIME OF PAUL V. (from a rare engraving
by Benedetto Drei, head master mason to the Pope. The site
of the tomb of S. Peter and the Fenestella are indi