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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 899
f they could always have continued so. Unfortunatelyafter the siege of Rome by the Goths, in the time of Justinian,when some of the catacombs were rifled of their contents, theuse of these excellent burying places was discontinued. That the arenana were considered as burying places in thetime of… … Cluentius, where he says that the young Asinius, a citizen ofnoble family, was inveigled into one of them and murdered. This shows they were in use before the Christian era, andthere is every reason to believe that they have been in use ever since 1 i m e-mortar cameinto use, whichis believed…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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