The Wonders Of Pompeii

The Wonders of Pompeii

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:n. THE FORUM. Diomed's Inn. —Theniche Of Minerva. — The Appearance Andthe Monuments Of The Forum. —The Antique Temple. —The Pagan Ex-voto Offerings. — The Merchants City Exchange And The Petty Exchange. —The Pantheon, Or Was It A Temple, A Slaughter.house, Or A Tavern ? — The Style Of CookIng AND THE FORM OF RELIGION. —The TEMPLE OF VENUS. —The BASILICA. — The Inscriptions Of Passers-by Upon The Walls. —The Forum Rebuilt. As you alight at the station, in the first place breakfast at the popina of Diomcd. It is a tavern of our own day, which has assumed an antique title to please travellers. You may there drink Falernian wine manufactured by Scala, the Neapolitan chemist, and, should you ask for soiaejcntaculum in the Roman style — aliquid scitamentorum, glandionidum suillam taridum, per- nonidem, sinciput aut amenta jyorcina, aut aliquid ad eum modum—-they will serve you a beefsteak and potatoes. Your strength refreshed, you will scale the sloping hillock of ashes and rubbish that conceals the ruins from your view; you will pay your two francs at the office and you will pass the gate-keeper's turn.stile, astonished, as it is, to find itself in such a place. These formalities once concluded you have nothing more that is modern to go through unless it be the companionship of a guide in military uniform who escorts you, in reality to watch you (especially if you belong to the country of Lord Elgin), but not to mulct you in theleast. Placards in all the known languages forbid you to offer him so much as an obolus. You make your entree, in a word, into the antique life, and you are as free as a Pompeian. The first thing one sees is an arcade and such a niche as might serve for an image of the Madonna; but be


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