Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-08-22
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 MAI BILE
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 # Faustina
the younger, intact another of some
Roman parsonage Of the first century
q fragment of n calendar with a men,
ion of the feast of the Faun held in
the Tiburtine islal d !; a Hermese, with
an unknown, bearded head !, two heads
Of a ca%nefora, ornamented with a
twisted crown ; a head of young Bac-
chus three cylindrical and spherical
vases, and a bronze vase with handles,
flled aCiM ancient Wheat! In the
ruins of the market-house, neal San
Antonio, of which l 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 Concassi, V. c." In the
Mtthraic ruins of the Villa Palombara,
which I mentioned in my letter of
April 80, they have found two other
Hithraic bas %reliefs, which bear traces
of polychrome painting and have this
inscription on the outside &C. ?.
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 a mosaic
floor and we see semi-circular rows of
small marble seats one above the other,
which fill up the end. 1t was probably
and dcddemja or library, and those
beautiful double rows of printed inches
very likely held MSS, or voltmen. As
it was n 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 Horacs or Vir-
giPs last poem. When 1 was there a
few afternoons ago, at sunset, I thought
how cha ming it was to repeople it with
such a court crowd. l stood alone in a
corner and bade myvisitors enter there
L placed the great men and women of
early imperial times the mysterious,
selt-contained master of them all, DC.
tavlous 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 rstinue of fut.
terlng young beaux and wits, flirting
openly and daringly with Ovid, and re-
plying with quick, spirituelle grace to
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 d beardless bust of an
unknown parsonage in good preserva-
ton and of excellent workmanship
also a marble capital of candlestick and
a fragment of a stucco cornice, which
ran round the summit OF this beautiful
hall. l mentioned in a preceding let
ter a Greek epigram which was found
traced on the walls carelessly, proba.
bly, by some youth, one of the jeunesse
dree who surrounded the splendid but
frall Julia. When these lines were
the learned daughter of Duke
de Sermoneta Don Michel Angelo Gn.
TAM, the Countess Ersilia Sovatelli,
said at once; 1T is a Greek epigram of
.allimachus," and then at that very
moment she wrote off the Latin version
Of 1T, and a graceful one of her W in
French. will give it to you in Eng
glish /:
eff 1 came of my own will to thy
house, 0, Archinie, to give myself up to
pleasures of the table, reproach me
a thousand times. But if 1 did not
come of my own will, you will do i'll to
reproach me. Wine and love urged me
IN. Love took possession of me. Wine
made me unwise. When l came to you
| asked not whose or what is this house,
put l embraced the sill of thy dwelling.
Ii that means injury, then in truth 1
nave done wrong Vatican Antho-
118, ali.