Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . tan Jesuit, which was published in Paris in1856. Greek gTaffiti occasionally are fo^^nd uponRoman ruins, but they are commonly in Latin, andin a few instances at Pompeii, in the ancient few sjiecimens may not be iminteresting. Some of them are idle scribblings, such as wemay suppose some loiterer to indite at the presentday; thus, some lounger at the door of a -wine-shop at Pompeii amuses himseK by scratching onthe door-post the tavern-keepers name—TabernaApini ( Appiuss Tavern), fig. 1. In other cases, we t2\ Af ATP Kg. I.
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . tan Jesuit, which was published in Paris in1856. Greek gTaffiti occasionally are fo^^nd uponRoman ruins, but they are commonly in Latin, andin a few instances at Pompeii, in the ancient few sjiecimens may not be iminteresting. Some of them are idle scribblings, such as wemay suppose some loiterer to indite at the presentday; thus, some lounger at the door of a -wine-shop at Pompeii amuses himseK by scratching onthe door-post the tavern-keepers name—TabernaApini ( Appiuss Tavern), fig. 1. In other cases, we t2\ Af ATP Kg. I. \ meet Avith some scrap of rude pleasantry or scandal,such as not unfrequently defaces the walls of ourown towns or \illages ; thus, Auge amat Arabienuni(Auge is in love mth Aa-abienus), fig. 2. Many AVCnAW^MAM^AAM Fig. 2. riide sketches also are found upon the walls, someof them evidently caricatures, others seriouslymeant, and grotesque from the extreme great many of the subjects of those sketches aregladiatorial. Here is a specimen (fig. 3):. Fig. 3. By far the largest proportion of the graffiti arefrom Pompeii, but many have also been discovered 41 GEAFFITI—GEAFTING. at Rome, and some of them are of a most interest-ing character. One discovered by Father Gannicciin 1856, in a subterranean chamber of the palaceof the Cresars, possesses a strange and tndy awfulinterest, as a memorial of the rude early conflictsof paganism with the rising Christian creed-It is no other than a pagan caricature of theChristian worship of our Lord on the cross, andcontains a Greek inscription descriptive of oneAlexamenus as engaged in worshipping God. Thechamber in which it was found appears to havebeen a waiting-room for slaves and others of inferiorgrade. The graffiti of the catacombs are almost allsepulchral, and are full of interest as illustratingeaily Christian life and doctrine.—See for thewhole subject the Edinburgh Review, voL ex. pp. 411-^37. GRAFTING, the uniting of
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