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SCENE FROM AN AMPHORA FOUND AT VULCI.
CHAPTER XXII.
MUSIGNANO.
Magni stat nominis umbra.—Lucan.
Quicquid sub terra est in apricum proferet setas.—Horat.
Three or four days may be pleasantly spent at Vulei, in
exploring the neighbourhood and watching the progress of
the excavations ; returning every evening to Montalto, to
secure the two greatest bye-road luxuries in Italy—a
decent dinner and a flealess bed. Let no one conceive that
he may pernoctate at the Ponte della Badia with impunity.
My fellow-traveller, on a previous visit to Vulci, had been
induced to take up his quarters for the night in the guard-
room of the castle, where the soldiers did their best to
accommodate him; but he was presently attacked in his
camp by legions of sharp-shooters, sure of aim and swift
of foot—who compelled him, sighing for the skin of Achilles,
to beat a precipitate retreat and take up a position in
the court-yard of the castle — sub Jove frigido — for
the rest of the night. As the nearest resting-places are
Montalto and Canino, both seven or eight miles distant,
CHAPTER XXII.
MUSIGNANO.
Magni stat nominis umbra.—Lucan.
Quicquid sub terra est in apricum proferet setas.—Horat.
Three or four days may be pleasantly spent at Vulei, in
exploring the neighbourhood and watching the progress of
the excavations ; returning every evening to Montalto, to
secure the two greatest bye-road luxuries in Italy—a
decent dinner and a flealess bed. Let no one conceive that
he may pernoctate at the Ponte della Badia with impunity.
My fellow-traveller, on a previous visit to Vulci, had been
induced to take up his quarters for the night in the guard-
room of the castle, where the soldiers did their best to
accommodate him; but he was presently attacked in his
camp by legions of sharp-shooters, sure of aim and swift
of foot—who compelled him, sighing for the skin of Achilles,
to beat a precipitate retreat and take up a position in
the court-yard of the castle — sub Jove frigido — for
the rest of the night. As the nearest resting-places are
Montalto and Canino, both seven or eight miles distant,