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THE RUINS OF POMPEII.
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of the principal events of the Trojan war; also greaves for the legs highly or-
namented, as represented in the annexed cuts. The masks sculptured on the
greaves represent the tragic, comic, and satiric features. The inscriptions,
too, and drawings on the walls relate to the combats of the arena.
The amphitheatre, being situated at the
south-eastern extremity of the town, and
there being no other excavations near it,
is often left unvisited by travellers; nor in-
deed to those who have seen any of the
Roman amphitheatres which so frequently
occur in Italy and France is there much to
attract attention in that at Pompeii. Yet
BRONZE HELMET FOUND AT POMPEII.
SPECIMEN OF THE GREAVES SUPPOSED TO HAVE
BEEN WORN BY THE GLADIATORS.
without paying it a visit our idea of the place will hardly be complete. Seges
est ubi Troja fait. These vineyards which we traverse in our way to it, these
fields planted with mulberry trees and sown with lupins and corn, smile and
flourish on the surface of the fiery flood which destroyed the city. They
cover buildings as splendid perhaps as those which we have already seen,
and containing, it may be, still richer treasures of art.
The amphitheatre at Pompeii was calculated to hold about twelve thousand
persons. When we consider that at Puteoli, within twenty miles of it, there
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of the principal events of the Trojan war; also greaves for the legs highly or-
namented, as represented in the annexed cuts. The masks sculptured on the
greaves represent the tragic, comic, and satiric features. The inscriptions,
too, and drawings on the walls relate to the combats of the arena.
The amphitheatre, being situated at the
south-eastern extremity of the town, and
there being no other excavations near it,
is often left unvisited by travellers; nor in-
deed to those who have seen any of the
Roman amphitheatres which so frequently
occur in Italy and France is there much to
attract attention in that at Pompeii. Yet
BRONZE HELMET FOUND AT POMPEII.
SPECIMEN OF THE GREAVES SUPPOSED TO HAVE
BEEN WORN BY THE GLADIATORS.
without paying it a visit our idea of the place will hardly be complete. Seges
est ubi Troja fait. These vineyards which we traverse in our way to it, these
fields planted with mulberry trees and sown with lupins and corn, smile and
flourish on the surface of the fiery flood which destroyed the city. They
cover buildings as splendid perhaps as those which we have already seen,
and containing, it may be, still richer treasures of art.
The amphitheatre at Pompeii was calculated to hold about twelve thousand
persons. When we consider that at Puteoli, within twenty miles of it, there