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The Common People of Ancient Rome

by Abbott Frank Frost

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...afeeling of peace and quiet, while the ancient dates and quaint letteringin the inscriptions carry us far from the hurry and bustle and trivialinterests of present-day life. No sense of sadness touches us. The storieswhich the stones tell are so far removed from us in point of time thateven those who grieved at the loss of the departed have long sincefollowed their friends, and when we read the bits of life history on thecrumbling monuments, we feel only that pleasurable emotion which, asCicero says in one of his letters, comes from our reading in history ofthe little tragedies of men of the past. But the epitaph deals with thecommon people, whom history is apt to forget, and gives us a glimpse oftheir character, their doings, their beliefs, and their views of life anddeath. They furnish us a simple and direct record of the life and theaspirations of the average man, the record of a life not interpreted forus by the biographer, historian, or novelist, but set down in all itssimplicity...

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