Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS STUDIES FROM THE CHRONICLES OF ROME BY FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1899 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1898, By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped October, 1898. Reprinted November, December, 1898. _Norwood Press_ _J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith_ _Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._ TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I PAGE THE MAKING OF THE CITY 1 THE EMPIRE 22 THE CITY OF AUGUSTUS 57 THE MIDDLE AGE 78 THE FOURTEEN REGIONS 100 REGION I MONTI 106 REGION II TREVI 155 REGION III COLONNA 190 REGION IV CAMPO MARZO 243 REGION V PONTE 274 REGION VI PARIONE 297 LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES VOLUME I Map of Rome _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Wall of Romulus 4 Palace of the Cæsars 30 The Campagna and Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct 50 Temple of Castor and Pollux 70 Basilica Constantine 90 Basilica of Saint John Lateran 114 Baths of Diocletian 140 Fountain of Trevi 158 Piazza Barberini 188 Porta San Lorenzo 214 Villa Borghese 230 Piazza del Popolo 256 Island in the Tiber 280 Palazzo Massimo alle Colonna 306 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT VOLUME I PAGE Palatine Hill and Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima 1 Ruins of the Servian Wall 8 Etruscan Bridge at Veii 16 Tombs on the Appian Way 22 Brass of Tiberius, showing the Temple of Concord 24 The Tarpeian Rock 28 Caius Julius Cæsar 36 Octavius Augustus Cæsar 45 Brass of Trajan, showing the Circus Maximus 56 Brass of Antoninus Pius, in Honour of Faustina, with Reverse showing Vesta bearing the Palladium 57 Ponte Rotto, now destroyed 67 Atrium of Vesta 72 Brass of Gordian, showing the Colosseum 78