wd of
people. Some one threw him a piece of bread and he carried it to his
master's lips, and when the corpse was tossed into the Tiber, the dog
dashed after it, and strove to keep it on the surface, so that people
came from all directions to admire the animal's devotion."

We are nowhere informed that the Roman journals were subjected to
government stamp and security for good behavior, but they were no more
free than those of France. Here is an anecdote reported by Dion on that
subject:

"It is well known," he says, "that an artist restored a large portico at
Rome which was threatening to fall, first by strengthening its
foundations at all points, so that it could not be displaced. He then
lined the walls with sheep's fleeces and thick mattresses, and, after
having attached ropes to the entire edifice, he succeeded, by dint of
manual force and the use of capstans, in giving it its former position.
But Tiberius, through jealousy, would not allow the name of this artist
to appear in the newspapers."

Now that you have been told a little concerning the ways of the Roman
people, you may quit the Thermae, but not without easting a glance at the
heating apparatus visible in a small adjacent court. This you approach
by a long corridor, from the _apodytera_. There you find the
_hypocaust_, a spacious round fireplace which transmitted warm air
through lower conduits to the stove, and heated the two boilers built
into the masonry and supplied from a reservoir. From this reservoir the
water fell cold into the first boiler, which sent it lukewarm into the
second, and the latter, being closer to the fire, gave it forth at a
boiling temperature. A conduit carried the hot water of the second
boiler to the square basin of the calidarium and another conveyed the
tepid water of the first boiler to the large receptacle of the labrum.
In the fire-place was found a quantity of rosin which the Pompeians used
in kindling their fires. Such were the Thermae of a small Roman city.

VI.

THE DWELLINGS.

PARATUS AND PANSA.--THE ATRIUM AND THE PERISTYLE.--THE DWELLING
REFURBISHED AND REPEOPLED.--THE SLAVES, THE KITCHEN, AND THE
TABLE.--THE MORNING OCCUPATIONS OF A POMPEIAN.--THE TOILET OF A
POMPEIAN LADY.--A CITIZEN SUPPER: THE COURSES, THE GUESTS.--THE
HOMES OF THE POOR, AND THE PALACES OF ROME.

In order, now, to study the _home_ of antique times, we have but to
cross the street of the baths obliquely. W