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ori_, under _Palaces_. Capitolium. See _Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus_. Caracalla, 12. Carrhae, 355. Carthage, excitement against the Christians in, 318. Castel S. Angelo, 234. Catacombs. Crypt of the Acilii Glabriones, 4; its devastation in the 17th cent., 8; burial of Christian martyrs, 119; injury occasioned by the building of churches over the tombs of martyrs, 122; preferred by the early Christians to open-air cemeteries, 308; their development in the 2d century, 317; the names given them, 317; their secret entrances, 318; not habitable, 319; their extent, 319; compared to the tombs of the kings at Thebes, 321; their use declined in the 4th century, 321; pillaged by the Goths, 324; restored by Pope Vigilius, 325; unmentioned by later Church annals, 327; discovered in 1578, 328; their wholesale pillage, 329; the treasures found in them, 331; the number of the Catacombs, 332. ---- of Callixtus, 50, 117, 216, 219, 339; ---- ad Catacumbas or of S. Sebastiano, 345; the bodies of SS. Peter and Paul concealed here, 346; ---- of Cyriaca, 350; ---- of Domitilla, 335; the Flavian crypt, 316 (cut), 330, 336; the basilica of Nereus and Achilleus, 338; the tomb of Ampliatus, 342; ---- ad Duas Lauros, or of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, 354; a fresco of the Saviour with SS. Paul and Peter, 356; relics of Renaissance humanists, 358; ---- of Generosa, 332; ---- of Pontianus, 221; ---- of Praetextatus, the cubiculum of S. Januarius, 322 (cut); ---- of Priscilla (map), 7, 23, 42, 111, 221; ---- of the Via Salaria, 285. Catacumba, derivation of the word, 345. Caves for burial on the Viminal and Esquiline, 255. Ceadwalla, King, baptism and death, 231; tomb, 232. Celibacy discouraged, 80. Cellae, 42. Cellini, Benvenuto, the cause of his imprisonment, 247. Cemeteries, pagan, 253-305; prehistoric cemeteries of the Viminal and the Esquiline, 254, 255; extensive cemeteries along the high roads, 260; on the Via Aurelia, 262; on the Via Triumphalis, 270; on the Via Salaria, 275; buried under twenty-five feet of earth, 284; on the Via Appia, 286; Christian cemeteries, 306-361; under the authority of the pontiffs, 307; underground cemeteries preferred by the early Christians, 308; their use revives after Constantine, 321, 323; at Concordia Sagittaria, 323, 324 (plate); suburban cemeteries ab
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