The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
The Buried Treasures Of Rome.

The Buried Treasures Of Rome.
There has been found on the Esoui-
line, near the ancient Villa Massimi.
writes the Rome correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser, another wall made
entirely OF pieces of broken marble
sculpture. This is the sixth which has
been discovered to be composed of
such precious fragments. In this last
and sixth wall is a colossal imperial
statue, nude, broken up In a Thousand
pieces +; a beautiful bust CT Faustina
the younger, intact; another of some
Roman parsonage Of the first century
fragment of a calendar with a men
ion OF the feast of the FaUn held in
| the TIburtine islaI d !; Hermese, with
an unknown, bearded head; two heads
/ of a canefora, ornamented with
twisted crown; a head of Young BAG
! chus three cylindrical and spherical
vases, and a bronze vase with handles,
lTti5Led auth ancient GUheGt! In the
ruins of the market-house, near San
Antonio, of which I have previously
spoken, there have been found other
bits of mineral blue color, also two
plates of ivory, united by a silver
hinge on the outside is the inscription,
" Gallieni Concsssi, Y. O." In the
Mithraic ruins of the Villa Palombara,
which I mentioned in my letter of
April 30, they have found two other
Hithraic bas reliefs, which bear traces
of polychrome painting and have this
inscription on the outside sc. p.
PEmus Patem Fecit." A plate of
silver was found in the same place, in
closed In a bronze cover.
The beautiful painted hall or tri-
Il Il T
described In preceding letters, is now
completely cleared out it has mosaic
floor and we see semi-circular rows of
small marble seats one above the other,
which fill up the end. It was probably
and academia or library, and those
beautiful double rows of printed inches
very likely held MSS, or UOLatn1e11. As
it was one of the decorative buildings
In the gardens of M8ecenas, we can
readily imagine that its sumptu0us
owner entertained IN it imperial guests
who sat and listened to Horace or Vir-
, gil's last poem. When I was there 8
few afternoons ago, at sunset, thought
how charming 1t was to repeople it with
r such court crowd. stood alone IN 6
? corner and babe myvisitors enter there
f I placed the great men and women Of
2 early imperial times the mysterious
5 self-contained master of them all, Dc
= taYious Augustus, and his ruler, thu
5 handsome, hypocritical Bivia, with the
t severe matronly air of the Pudiciza
r surrounded by her court of the learned
= and wise men of tho day; the sad
: jealous Octavia, disappointed, Widowed
: and motherless the reckless, brilliant
beautiful daughter of Augustus, J Julia
encircled by her noisy retinue of fiut
tering young beaux and wits, flirting
: openly and daringly with Ovid, and re
: plying with quick, spirituelle grace K
: her adoring fathers reprimands go
. Caesar, have patience with my yount
: friends and me we shall all soon grow
: old together
In the debris Of this charming tri
j., | clinic they found d beardless bust of al
: unknown parsonage in good preserva
ton and of excellent workmanship
|, | also marble capital of candlestick ant
! a fragment of a stucco cornice, whicl
! ran round the summit OF this beautiful
: hall. 1 mentioned in q preceding let
9 ter Greek epigram which was fount
traced on the walls careIessIy, proba
. | bly, by some youth, one of the jelGne88
= dree who surrounded the splendid bu
= frail Julia. When these lines wer
= found, the learned daughter of Duk
de SermOneta Don Michel Angelo Ca
a TAM, the Countess Ersilia Soyatelli
:, said at once: &c It is q Greek epigram @
: Callimachus," and then at that yer
4 moment she wrote off the Latin versio
y of it, and a graceful one of her own /
r French. I will give it to you in Eng
q glish: is
, "If [ came of my own will to til
. house, o, Archinie, to give myself up t
= the pleasures of the table, reproach m
"a thousand times. But if I did no
a come of my own will, you viii do Ill t
4 reproach me. Wine and love urged M
# on. Love took possession of me. Win
4. made me unwise. When came to 20
! 1 asked not whose or what is this house
= but 1 embraced the sill of thy dwelling
:. If that means injury, then in truth
e have done wrong" p Vatican A1ltItc
! logic, rs, ali.