Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — Ancient Roman Long Branch. [ARTICLE]

Ancient Roman Long Branch.

The sea coast of JAurentum may have been In favor with the fashion* able and the wealthy for a brief space of time under Augustus and his Immediate successors, but was given up quite soon to parvenues and merchants and retired officers, and the same set of noisy people who haunt at the* present day the popular watering places of the world. To make the analogy more striking, an inscription has been found at La Capocotta singing the praises of a wealthy Jew, and revealing the fact that a synagogue had been built at Ostia for the use of the Semitic “villeggianti" on the neighboring coast I