ONE AFTERNOON IN ROME

Rome is never seen in a day, but by morning and afternoon trips for several days, and then the sight-seeing days should be followed by a week or two just browsing about the city.

In one afternoon it is possible to start near the Coliseum on the Appian Way, built in 312 B.C. It was the queen of all ancient roads and early was threaded daily with traffic for all the known eastern world. Its sides were flanked with the tombs of the Scipios, Clodius, Milo, Livia, Seneca, and other illustrious Romans. Scipio Africanus in 201 B.C. entered Rome by this road, Cicero was welcomed here with honors on his return from exile in 57 8.C., the apostle Paul entered Rome over its pavements, and Titus after he had destroyed Jerusalem was received with triumph along the Via Appia. This road was three hundred and fifty miles long, marked with the earliest milestones. From it we come to the Baths of Caracalla, and soon pass over the ground where the Catacombs" burrow below, till we reach the old Church of San Sebastian built by Constantdne in A.D. 313, and then to the Belvedere, where is obtained a wonderful view over the Roman Campagna and of the Claudian aqueducts which still supply Rome with water.