Wanderings in the Roman campagna . Portrait head of Horace in a me-dallion of the third century THE LAND OF HORACE 81 friendship of the beady-eyed lyrist was sought by thegreat of the land for his own sake; they were civil tohim mostly in the hope of securing the dedication of apoem, by means of which their names would pass toposterity. And their wishes were evidently compliedwith, for nearly all the owners of villas at Tibur appearto advantage in one or more of the poets lyrics, writ-ten, I suppose, as an acknowledgment of their gracioushospitality. Lollius, Antonius, Censorinus, Munatius,. T
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . Portrait head of Horace in a me-dallion of the third century THE LAND OF HORACE 81 friendship of the beady-eyed lyrist was sought by thegreat of the land for his own sake; they were civil tohim mostly in the hope of securing the dedication of apoem, by means of which their names would pass toposterity. And their wishes were evidently compliedwith, for nearly all the owners of villas at Tibur appearto advantage in one or more of the poets lyrics, writ-ten, I suppose, as an acknowledgment of their gracioushospitality. Lollius, Antonius, Censorinus, Munatius,. The peristyle of the Temple of Hercules, where Augustus administered justice Varus, Gallus, and not a few gay ladies have thusgained immortality in exchange for civilities shown tothe son of an ex-slave of Venosa. These, then, were the personages whose assembly atTibur made it the fashionable resort of the Augustanno-e. They were joined at times by the Emperor himself, 82 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA to whom treatment at the Aqua Albula^ for neurastheniahad been suggested by the court physician, AntoniusMusa. Suetonius, from whom we gather these particu-lars, adds that the Emperor, while undergoing thetreatment at Tibur, would occasionally sit in the peri-style of the temple of Hercules and administer justiceto the peasantry. To perpetuate the memory of theseevents a society was formed among the Tiburtines,called the Herculanii Angu.^tales, for the joint worshipof the deified emperor and of the santo protettore oftheir city. This society flourished for many centuries,and its doing
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