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Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the...
Much of Rome's early history was shaped by the Sibyl's dictates, whose records eventually filled nine Sibylline Books. Tarquin the Proud (534-510 B. C.), last of Rome's legendary Kings, wanted to buy the Books but refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl...
Fascinated by the question whether Parisians are dirtier than the citizens of Madrid, that outspoken Spanish daily La Voz commented last week thus: "Curious statistics recently gathered in Paris show an average of only two and three-quarter baths per year per Parisian. Surely in Madrid the average is not...
A frank admirer of Americans, dynamic Benito Mussolini granted to the University of Pennsylvania the first concession to unearth Italian ruins vhich the Italian Government has granted to foreigners for 30 years. Last week there was news from the Penn excavations 90 miles from Rome, news as important to international...
The earlier fortunes of the Roman Republic swirled in the turbulent eddies of war. The legions marched out of Rome into the frontiers of the east and harried the barbarians in the hinterlands of Spain. Their lances pierced the jungle land of Africa and broke the flying cavalry of the...