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146 FALLERI. [chap. vii.
Palleri was on the Via Amerina which branched from
the Via Cassia at Le Sette Vene, and ran northward
through Nepi to Todi and Perugia. It is five miles from
Nepi, as set down in the Table, and three from Cor-
chiano on the same line of ancient road.5 In this direction,
or northwards from Palleri, the road may be traced by
fragments more or less perfect almost as far as Orte, on
the Tiber.
For my guide to Palleri I took a man from Civita Cas-
tellana, named Domenico Mancini, a most obliging, civil
fellow, simple but intelligent, and, what is more than can
be said for Italian guides in general, satisfied with a
just remuneration. Having tended cattle or sheep all
his life-time in the neighbourhood, he knows the site of
every grotta or tomb, and in fact, pointed out to
me those with the porticoes and Latin inscription, which
were previously unknown to the world. The antiquity-
hunter in Italy can have no better guide than an
intelligent shepherd; for these men, passing their days
in the open air, and following their flocks over the
wilds far from beaten tracks, become familiar with every
cave, every fragment of ruined wall, and block of hewn
stone ; and, though they do not comprehend the antiquity
of such relics, yet, if the traveller makes them aware of
what he is seeking, they will rarely fail to lead him to the
sites of such remains, and often, as in my case, give him
good cause to rejoice in his interrogatory, " Gentle shep-
herd, tell me where V The visitor to Falleri cannot
6 Its distances are thus marked in the Faleros V.
Peutingerian Table:—
Castello Amerino
XII.
Roma
Amelia
Villi.
Ad Sextum
VI.
Tuder
,—
Veios
VI.
VI.
Vacanas
vim.
Vetona
X.
Nepe
vim.
Pirusio
XIIII.
Palleri was on the Via Amerina which branched from
the Via Cassia at Le Sette Vene, and ran northward
through Nepi to Todi and Perugia. It is five miles from
Nepi, as set down in the Table, and three from Cor-
chiano on the same line of ancient road.5 In this direction,
or northwards from Palleri, the road may be traced by
fragments more or less perfect almost as far as Orte, on
the Tiber.
For my guide to Palleri I took a man from Civita Cas-
tellana, named Domenico Mancini, a most obliging, civil
fellow, simple but intelligent, and, what is more than can
be said for Italian guides in general, satisfied with a
just remuneration. Having tended cattle or sheep all
his life-time in the neighbourhood, he knows the site of
every grotta or tomb, and in fact, pointed out to
me those with the porticoes and Latin inscription, which
were previously unknown to the world. The antiquity-
hunter in Italy can have no better guide than an
intelligent shepherd; for these men, passing their days
in the open air, and following their flocks over the
wilds far from beaten tracks, become familiar with every
cave, every fragment of ruined wall, and block of hewn
stone ; and, though they do not comprehend the antiquity
of such relics, yet, if the traveller makes them aware of
what he is seeking, they will rarely fail to lead him to the
sites of such remains, and often, as in my case, give him
good cause to rejoice in his interrogatory, " Gentle shep-
herd, tell me where V The visitor to Falleri cannot
6 Its distances are thus marked in the Faleros V.
Peutingerian Table:—
Castello Amerino
XII.
Roma
Amelia
Villi.
Ad Sextum
VI.
Tuder
,—
Veios
VI.
VI.
Vacanas
vim.
Vetona
X.
Nepe
vim.
Pirusio
XIIII.