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Show Ancient Roman Long Branch. The sea coast of .'.aurentum may have been in favor with the fashionable fashion-able and the wealthy for a brief space of time under Augustus and bis immediate successors, but was given up quite soon to parvenues and merchants mer-chants and retired officers, and the same set of noisy people who haunt at the present day the popular watering places of tbe world. To make the analogy more striking, an Inscription baa been found at La Capocotta sing Ing the praises of a wealthy Jew. and revealing the fact that a synagogue had been built at Ostla for tbe use of the Semitic "vllleggianti" on thr neighboring coaat |