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The Buried Treasures OF Rome.

The Buried Treasures OF Rome.
There has been found on the Esqui-
line, near the ancient Villa Massimi,
writes the Rome correspondent OF the
Boston Advertiser, another wall made
entirely of pieces of broken maj bic
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 II Faustina
the younger, intact another OF some
Roman parsonage Of the first century /;
a fragment Of n calendar with a men
ton of the feast Of the Faun held in
the Tiburtine islal d a Hermcse, with
an unknown, bearded head; two heads
of a canefora, ornamented with a
twisted crown Il head of young Bac,
chus three cylindrical and spherical
vases, and q bronze vase with handles,
Giicd NTH ancient wheat! In the
ruins of tue market-house, near San
Antonio, of which / have previously
spoken, there have been found other
bits of mineral blue color, also two
plates of ivory, united by n silver
hinge on the outside is the inscription,
"Gallieni Conc ssi, V. c." In the
Mithraic ruins of the Villa Palombara,
which | mentioned in my letter OF
April 80, they have found two other
Hlthraic bas %reliefs, which bear traces
of ~polychrome painting and have this
inscription on the outside "G. L.
Primns Patem Fecit." A plate of
silver was found in the same place, ill.,
closed in a bronze cover.
The beautiful painted hall or tri-
clinic on the Via Merulana, which | have
described in preceding letters, is now
completely cleared out it has a mosaic
floor /; and we see semi-circular rows OF
small marble seats Il above the other,
which fill mp the end. 1t was probably
and ocaicntio or library, and those
beautiful double rows of printed inches
very likely held MSS, or roi"Uacn. AS
it was one of the decorative buildings
in the gardens of Mpcenas, we can
imagine that its sI%mptuous
owner entertained in it imperial guests
who sat and listened to Horace or Vir-
gil's last poem. When | was there q
few afternoons ago, at sunset, | thought
how cha ming it was to repeople it with
such a court crowd. / stood alone in n
and babe my visitors enter there
1 pleood the great men and women Of
imperial times the mysterious,
self. contained master of them all, DC.
tayious Augustus, and his ruler, the
handsome, hypocritical Livia, with the
severe matronly mir of the Pndiciza,
surrounded by her court of the learned
md wise men of the day the sad,
ealous Octavia, disappointed, widowed
md motherless the reckless, brilliant,
beautiful daughter Of Augustus, Julia,
.ncircled by her noisy retinue of tlut-
young beaux and wits, flirting
and daringly with Ovid, and re-
with quick, spirituelle grace to
ler adoring fathers reprimands 80,
have patience with my young
and me we shall all soon grow
Did together !"
In the debriS of this charming tri-
they found / beardless bust of an
unknown parsonage in good preserva-
ion and of excellent workmanship
llso a marble capital of caudlestick and
fragment Of a stucco cornice, which
an round the summit OF this beautiful
nall. | mentioned in a preceding let
er a Greek 'epigram which was found
AGED on the walls clrelessly, proba.
bly, by some youth, one Of the jeuncSSe
tree who surrounded the splendid but
rail Julia. When these lines were
ound, the learned daughter of Duke
lie Sermoneta Don Michel Angelo Gle.
ami, the Countess Ersilia Sovatelli,
aid at once: set is n Greek cpigram of
Jallimachus," and then ut that very
moment she wrote off the Latin version
If it, and a graceful one of her own in
French. 1 viii give it to you in Eng
ylish
"lf | came Of my own will to thy
house, o, Archinie, to give myself up to
PLEASURES. of the table, reproach me
! thousand times. But II + ufu not
'omo of my own will, you will do i'll to
me. Wine and love urged me
m. Love took possession of me. Wine
made me unwise. When | came to you
asked not whose or what is this house,
| embraced the sill of thy dwelling.
t that means injury, then in truth /
AVE done wrong Vatican Antho-
OgiG, l1s, rii.