Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . PALACE AT C:AIRAR0LA(A Typical Palace) /?. /?. Tuckclt. MEDUSA(From the Lnke of Nemi, 1896) 1 Walks in Rome 689 waters edge, where we may see the Emissarium. It was 394, during the siege of Veil, to let out and control the waters ofthe Alban Lake, in accordance with the counsel sent from the oracleof Apollo at Delphi. The entrance is enclosed in a nymphaeumof imperial date, such as is beautifully described in the lines ofVirgil:— Fronte sub advers4 scopulla pendentibus antrum ;lutus aquae dulces, vivoque sedilia saxo;Nymp

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Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . PALACE AT C:AIRAR0LA(A Typical Palace) /?. /?. Tuckclt. MEDUSA(From the Lnke of Nemi, 1896) 1 Walks in Rome 689 waters edge, where we may see the Emissarium. It was 394, during the siege of Veil, to let out and control the waters ofthe Alban Lake, in accordance with the counsel sent from the oracleof Apollo at Delphi. The entrance is enclosed in a nymphaeumof imperial date, such as is beautifully described in the lines ofVirgil:— Fronte sub advers4 scopulla pendentibus antrum ;lutus aquae dulces, vivoque sedilia saxo;NympharTim domus. —Aen. i. 167. Clambering up the hill again, we find the height crested by thepine-trees overhanging the wall of the Villa Barberini, of which thegrounds present an immense variety of views, from a foreground,half cultivated and half wild, ending in a grand old avenue of stonepines. The ruins, which we see here in such abundance, are remainsof the villa of Pompey, or of the insane structures, as Cicero callsthem, belonging to the villa of Clodius. Domitian, at a later day,joined these two p

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