To  the  old  Rome  it  owes  nothing,  not  so  much  as  a  tradi-
tion. Later,  when  another  kind  of  influence  began,  London
learned  much,  and  took  much,  from  Rome  ;  but  from  Augusta
■ — from  Roman  London  — nothing.  Roman  traditions,  Roman
speech,  Roman  superstitions,  linger  yet  among  the  southern
Spaniards,  though  the  Moor  conquered  and  held  the  country
for  six  hundred  years.  They  linger,  in  spite  of  many  conquests,
in  France,  in  Italy  (north  and  south),  in  Roumania,  in  Anatolia


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In  London  alone,  of  all  the  places  which  Imperial  Rome  made
her  own,  and  kept  for  hundreds  of  years,  no  trace  of  ancient
Rome  remains.  When  London  next  hears  of  the  Eternal
City  it  is  Rome  of  the  Christian  Church.
