52/216 _de Officiis_ iii.16.66, and the story there related.] [Footnote 26: Strictly speaking, the Oppius Mons, or southern part of the Esquiline.] [Footnote 27: See Lanciani's admirable chapter, "A Walk through the Sacra Via," in his _Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome_, p. 190 foll.] [Footnote 28: _Georg_.ii.502.Virgil, for all his admiration of Rome, did not love its crowds.] [Footnote 29: Cic. _pro Plancio_, ch.7.Cp.Horace, _Sat_.i. Baehrens), which last will be quoted in another context.] [Footnote 30: On the vexed question of the position of the Subura and its history see Wissowa, _Gesammelte Abhandlungen_, p. |