Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
FIND LIKENESS
 OF AUGUSTUS
Archaeologist Discovers Splendid Statue of Roman Emperor
 at TivoH.
LIFEukE STUDY BY ARTIST
Valuable Addition to Portraits of Ro- man Emperors and Is Only One Extant Done During Em-
 peror'e Life.

Rome.-Tivoli. that lovely little city perched above Rome, called Tibur by the ancient Romans, has just given to the archaeological world two new art treasures-an augusteum, or hall, and a splendid head of Emperor Au- gustus.
 Prof. Alessio Valle, one of the arch aeologists who have made Tivoli a special study, long believed that Tivoli should reveal an ancient hall of importance, considering the four ishing state of the city in Roman days. He began to dig near a newly discovered weights and measures of flee, also dating from the Roman em- pire, thinking that the public weights and measures must surely be near some important hall.
 He was not mistaken. He has opened up a hall with a Roman pave ment of white and green marble which looks as if it were put down this morning, so fresh is it, and the statue of Augustus, broken but with the head intact, as the picture shows, with the lifelike lines cut out of the marble by some unknown sculptor of evident genius.
 Likeness of Augustus.
 The statue is a likeness of Angus tus when he had grown old. An in- scription underneath it, which dedi- cates the statue to the gods, flor the happy return in good health of our Augustus Caesar" proves it was done during the famous emperor's lifetime, a votive offering to the gods by a loyal Tivoli citizen who signs himself M. Veranus Diifilus. The same man gave the public weights and measures to the city.
 History lets us date this statue be- tween B. c. 31 and A. D. II, when Emperor Augustus died near Naples, aged seventy-six. Experts say the face is the face of man of fifty. In the worn lines. the ill-tempered mouth. its upward twist at the left side, we have no fiattering picture of the great emperor, but a lifelike study by an artist who dared to cut his statue as he saw the human model. For this reason, and because of its surely be- ing done in Augustus lifetime, it is a very valuable addition to the col lection of portraits of the Roman emperors, and probably the only one extant of Augustus done during his lifetime.
 The figure, which originally sat on the pedestal at the head of the hall, is graceful, as Suetoius, that gos- sipy historian from whom later scribes have learned nearly all they know about the Roman emperors, told us, saying:
 Graceful Person.
 He was a very graceful person through all the stages of life, though he was very careless in his dress and would set several barbers to work upon his hair together, and would sometimes clip and sometimes shave his beard, and at the same time would be reading or writing"
 Augustus, though emperor, called himself a democrat and, says Sue toius, always abhorred the title of lord as a scandalogs affront." He tells us, too, that the emperor caught cold easily and wore woolen under wear in winter, with a thick wool toga."
 This broken statue, with the base on which it stood, unearthed after so long bridges the gulf of centuries and brings one of the greatest rulers the world ever saw very near.