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Doubtless these magnificent natural endowments did much to influence the choice of Constantino ; and yet I believe that no economic advantages, even though greater and more palpable, would have been sufficient to disen- gage his affections from a scene so consecrated by grand historical recollections as Rome, had not one overwhelming repulsion, ineradically Roman, violently disenchanted him forever. This turned upon religion. Rome, it was found, could not be de- paganised. Too profound, too inv...eterately entangled with the very soil and deep substructions of Latium were the old traditional records, promises, auguries, and mysterious splendors of con centrated Heathenism in, and on, and nine times round about, and fifty fathoms below, and countless fathoms in upper air above this most memorable of capital cities. Jupiter Capitolinus, the Sybil's Books, which for Roman minds were authentic, the dread cloister of Vestal Virgins, Jupiter Stator, and the undeni- ble omen of the Twelve Vultures * centuries of mysterious *' : 0menof the twelve vultures:" The reader must not allow himself to be repelled from the plain historic truth by fool- ish reproaches of superstition or credulity.
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