Christian antiquities -- Italy -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities
Caligula, his bridge, so-called, 101;
places his mother's ashes in the mausoleum, 184.
Callixtus, death, 220.
----, Catacombs of. See _Catacombs_.
Calpurnii, their tomb, 276;
their history, 277.
Cambyses, conquest of Egypt, 94.
Camillus, capture of Veii, 64.
Campagna, 286 (plate).
Campo dell' Augusta, 179.
Campus Esquilinus, 256.
Campus Martius, 74;
early excavations in, 98.
Candelabrum, in church of SS. Nereo ed Achilleo, 26 (cut);
in Church of S. Paolo, 239 (cut).
Canevari, Ant., 159.
Canova, his tomb of Clement XIII., 250.
Capitoline games, 281.
Capitoline Hill, 85;
the western summit, 86 (plate).
Capitoline museum, 15, 42, 59, 70, 93, 106, 190, 255, 290 n.
See, also, _dei Conservatori_, under _Palaces_.
Capitolium. See _Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus_.
Caracalla, 12.
Carrhæ, 355.
Carthage, excitement against the Christians in, 318.
Castel S. Angelo, 234.
Catacombs.
Crypt of the Acilii Glabriones, 4;
its devastation in the 17th cent., 8;
burial of Christian martyrs, 119;
injury occasioned by the building of churches over the tombs of
martyrs, 122;
preferred by the early Christians to open-air cemeteries, 308;
their development in the 2d century, 317;
the names given them, 317;
their secret entrances, 318;
not habitable, 319;
their extent, 319;
compared to the tombs of the kings at Thebes, 321;
their use declined in the 4th century, 321;
pillaged by the Goths, 324;
restored by Pope Vigilius, 325;
unmentioned by later Church annals, 327;
discovered in 1578, 328;
their wholesale pillage, 329;
the treasures found in them, 331;
the number of the Catacombs, 332.
---- of Callixtus, 50, 117, 216, 219, 339;
---- ad Catacumbas or of S. Sebastiano, 345;
the bodies of SS. Peter and Paul concealed here, 346;
---- of Cyriaca, 350;
---- of Domitilla, 335;
the Flavian crypt, 316 (cut), 330, 336;
the basilica of Nereus and Achilleus, 338;
the tomb of Ampliatus, 342;
---- ad Duas Lauros, or of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, 354;
a fresco of the Saviour with SS. Paul and Peter, 356;
relics of Renaissance humanists, 358;
---- of Generosa, 332;
---- of Pontianus, 221;
---- of Prætextatus, the cubiculum of S. Januarius, 322 (cut);
---- of Priscilla (map), 7, 23, 42, 111, 221;
---- of the Via Salaria, 285.
Catacumba, derivation of the word, 345.
Caves for burial on the Viminal and Esquiline, 255.
Ceadwalla, King, baptism and death, 231;
tomb, 232.
Celibacy discouraged, 80.
Cellæ, 42.
Cellini, Benvenuto, the cause of his imprisonment, 247.
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