But she is as a well-loved woman, whose dear face is drawn upon a man's heart by the sharp memory of a cruel parting, line for line, shadow for shadow, look for look, as she was when he saw her last; and line for line he remembers her and longs for her smile and her tender word. Yet be the lines ever so deep-graven, and the image ever so sweet and true, when the time of parting is over, when he comes back and she stands where she stood, with eyes that lighten to his eyes, then she is better loved than he knew and dearer than he had guessed. Then the heart that has steadily beaten time to months of parting, leaps like a child at the instant of meeting again; then eyes that have so long fed on memory's vision widen and deepen with joy of the living truth; then the soul that has hungered and starved through an endless waiting, is suddenly filled with life and satisfied of its faith. So he who loves Rome, and leaves her, remembers her long and well, telling himself that he knows how every stone of her walls and her streets would look again; but he comes back at last, and sees her as she is, and he stands amazed at the grandeur of all that has been, and is touched to the heart by the sad loveliness of much that is. Together, the thoughts of love and reverence rise in words, and with them comes the deep wonder at something very great and high. For he himself is grown grey and war-worn in the strife of a few poor years, while through five and twenty centuries Rome has faced war and the world; and he, a gladiator of life, bows his head before her, wondering how his own fight shall end at last, while his lips pronounce the submission of his own mortality to her abiding endurance-- AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS, MORITURUS TE SALUTAT Index A Abruzzi, i. 159; ii. 230 Accoramboni, Flaminio, i. 296 Vittoria, i. 135, 148, 289-296, 297 Agrarian Law, i. 23 Agrippa, i. 90, 271; ii. 102 the Younger, ii. 103 Alaric, i. 252; ii. 297 Alba Longa, i. 3, 78, 130 Albergo dell' Orso, i. 288 Alberic, ii. 29 Albornoz, ii. 19, 20, 74 Aldobrandini, i. 209; ii. 149 Olimpia, i. 209 Alfonso, i. 185 Aliturius, ii. 103 Altieri, i. 226; ii. 45 Ammianus Marcellinus, i. 132, 133, 138 Amphitheatre, Flavian, i. 91, 179 Amulius, i. 3 Anacletus, ii. 295, 296, 304 Anagni, i. 161, 165, 307; ii. 4, 5 Ancus Martius, i. 4 Angelico, Beato, ii. 158, 169, 190-192, 195, 285 Anguillara, i. 278; ii. 138 Titta della, ii. 138, 139 Anio, the, i. 93 Novus, i. 144 Vetus, i. 144 Annibaleschi, Riccardo degli, i. 278 Antiochus, ii. 120 Antipope-- Anacletus, ii. 84 Boniface, ii. 28 Clement, i. 126 Gilbert, i. 127 John of Calabria, ii. 33-37 Antonelli, Cardinal, ii. 217, 223, 224 Antonina, i. 266 Antonines, the, i. 113, 191, 271 Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, i. 46, 96, 113, 114, 190, 191 Appian Way, i. 22, 94 Appius Claudius, i. 14, 29 Apulia, Duke of, i. 126, 127; ii. 77 Aqua Virgo, i. 155 Aqueduct of Claudius, i. 144 Arbiter, Petronius, i. 85