Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and His Basilica in Rome (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Saint Clement, Pope and Martyr, and His Basilica in RomeIN a vineyard about a mile from Rome, the foun dation walls of a large villa, the chambers of which are filled up with masses of stucco ornaments and coloured plaster, as indeed the whole soil with bits of Pompeian red, fragments of various and rare mar bles, mosaics, glass of so many colours that we won der at the profusion, pottery from the coarsest to the fine thin polished red clay, and, more rarely, seals, and gold ornaments, attest the mansion of a rich Pagan family. In a corner of the inclosure are ruined columbaria, probably for their depend ents, with broken cinerary urns still in their niches, and in another place a vast massive round monu~ ment of stone for the head of the house, who left to posterity a single sepulchral chamber in the cen tre. A white marble slab, still preserved, though detached from the building, gives us the title.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.