Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 899
ations of horror at theidea of being taken there alive for the purpose of concealment.The sand-pits are also mentioned by Cicero in his Oration for 878 TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. Cluentius, where he says that the young Asinius, a citizen ofnoble family, was inveigled into one of them and murdered. This… … ~<l^\v^|*^95*^_ STONE COFFIN. that period. The celebrated Pozzolana sand makes the bestmortar in the world, from its gritty nature. This valuable sandis found to any extent nearly all over the Campagna of Rome,in horizontal beds or layers between the beds of tufa; some ofthe tufa itself, which…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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