The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
The Buried Treasures Of BONO.


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 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 thousand
pieces a beautiful bust IF Faustina
the younger, intact another of some
Roman parsonage Of the first century;
a fragment of calendar with men
ton of the feast of the Faun held in
the Tiburtine islai a Hermese, with
an unknown, bearded head, two heads
of q canefora, ornamented with O
twisted crown a head of young BAG
chus three cylindrical and spherical
vases, and a bronze vase with handles,
filled aOith ancient SOheGtf 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 q silver
hinge /; on the outside is the inscription,
g Gallieni OOncessi, Y. O." In the
Mithraic ruins of the Villa Palonbara,
which 1 mentioned in my letter of
April 80, they have found two other
Hithraic bas reliels, which bear traces
of polychrome painting and have this
inscription on the outside; sc. P.
Primus Patem Fecit" A plate of
! silver was found in the same place, in
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 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 VOIltn3en. As
| it was one of the decorative buildings
in the gardens OF Mecenas, we can
readily imagine that its sumptuous
| owner entertained in it imperial guests
| who sat and listened to Horace or Vir-
| gil's last poem. When 1 was there q
| few afternoons ago, at sunset, thought
how charming it was to repeople it with
such a court crowd. I stood alone in q
corner and babe my visitors enter there
1 placed the great men and women of
early imperial times the mysterious,
self-contained master of them all, Oc-
/ tavious Augustus, and his ruler, the
handsome, hypocritical Livia, with the
severe matronly air of the Pudiciza,
surrounded by her court of the learned
and wise men of the day the sad,
jealous Octavia, disappointed, widowed
and motherless the reckless, brilliant,
beautiful daughter of Augustus, Julia,
encircled by her noisy retinue of fut
tering young beaux and wits, flirting
openly and daringly with Ovid, and re-
plying with quick, spirituelle grace tC
her adOring fathers reprimands go
Caesar, have patience with my young
friends and me we shall all soon grow
old together !"
In the debris of this charming tri
clinic they found beardless bust of al
unknown parsonage in good preserva
ton and of excellent workmanship
also marble capital of candlestick and
a fragment of a stucco cornice, which
ran round the summit OF this beautiful
halt L mentioned in a preceding let
ter Greek epigram which was found
traced on the walls carelessly, proba
bly, by some youth, one of the jeltness,
dree who surrounded the splendid bu
frail Julia. When these lines wer,
found, the learned daughter of Duk,
9 de Sermoneta Don Michel Angelo Gae
tani, the Countess ErsiIia Sovatelli
said at once: 1t is a Greek epigram o
Callimachus, and then at that yer,
moment she wrote off the Latin version
of it, and a graceful one of her own il
French. will give it to you in Eng
glish
eff I came of my own will to Tia,
house, o, Archinie, to give myself up t,
the pleasures of the table, reproach m
a thousand times. But if I did no
come of my own will, you viii do i'll t,
reproach me. Wine and love urged M
ON. Love took possession of me. Win
made me unwise. When I came to vol
l asked not whose or what is this house
but 1 embraced the sill of thy dwelling
If that means injury, then in truth
have done wrong. - Vatican Antho
logic, lis, cii.