Sublime

Teishin,

To leap over this little furrow was an impious act; it is a Roman tradition that the founder's brother committed this act of sacrilege, and paid for it with his life.267

At the foot of the hill was found an agglomeralion of houses, which were built without any religious ceremony, and without a sacred enclosure. These were the dwellings of the plebeians, who could not live in the sacred city.

ubi tu Caius, ego Caia — a formula which tells us that, if in the house there was not equal authority, there was equal dignity.

According to the oldest belief of the Italians and Greeks, the soul did not go into a foreign world to pass its second existence; it remained near men, and continued to live under ground.1