Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York : Sturgis & Walton company · leaf 181
Ciceros time. For its long and varied previousdevelopment we must look to Etruscan remains,not so much in the form of actual houses as inreproductions of them in tombs and on urns.When Plinv tells us that before the war withPyrrhus there were only thatched and shingledhouses in Rome, we infer that… … Plate xix ROMAN CITIES 119 thatched. Their simple structure was either sup-ported on a central pole or by a horizontal ridge-pole resting on forked or curved sticks joined tothe sides. These various types are reproducedeither in tombs or in the earliest form of urn, thecabin urn. In the center of…
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