Capitolo 47
many of us. The absence of movement, contrasted out only with the life
his/her walls, the drowsy humming of the bees in the flowers to which you/they grow
desire, the grey calm of the stones and the green of the musk gives one a
hearing some peace and it calms, while the ancient dates and characteristic registration
in the registrations I/you/he/she bring us away from the hurry and confusion and banal
affairs of the actual life. Any sense of touches of sadness us. The histories
what the stones say you/he/she is removed by us in point of time till now that
those that were distressed to the loss of the past also have from very since then
follows their friends, and when we read the pieces of history of life on the
monuments that crumble, we only feel that pleasant emotion that, as
Cicero says in one of his/her letters, you/he/she enters from our reading history of
the small tragedies of men of the past. But the epitaph gives with the
common people that history is proper to forget, and it gives us a look of
their character, their doingses, their beliefs and their sights of the life and
death. They furnish us to Them a simple and directed record of the life and the
the reasonable man's aspirations, the record of a life didn't interpret for
us from the biographer, historical, or novelist, but it rose up down all his/her
the simplicity within one of the common people was.
These facts lend their particular interest to the Roman and ancient epitaphs and
charm. Gives us to Them a look in the life of every-day of the people that
a Cicero or a Virgil, or also a Horace cannot offer us. They has to have
it also practiced an influence on Roman character that we with ours changed,
conditions can increase of value as soon as. We will understand this fact if us
you call for minding the differences among the ancient practices in the matter
of burial and our really. The church square of village is with us a thing of the
past. If on sanitary motives, or in the interest of quiet and isolation,
in the interest of economy, or not to obtrude death's thought on
us, the modern cemetery has put out of our cities and the notes in