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Ch. III.
THROUGH ITALY.
151
the spot which traditionary report represented as
the site of the historian’s dwelling'; or whether
it was erected on the ruin of some ancient edifice
that bore a name resembling his ; or whether, in
short, some inscription favorable to such an
opinion, may have been found in or near it, I
could not discover; but every object connected
in the most distant manner with so eminent an
author, inspires interest and claims some atten-
tion. I need not observe, that the pretended
tomb of Antenor, though it recals to mind the
antiquity of the city, and at the same time some
very beautiful verses,* is a monument of some
prince of the middle ages, discovered in 1274.
Padua was famous in ancient times for its
woollen manufactures celebrated in prose by
Strabo and in verse by Martial. It still retains
much of its reputation in this respect, and its
* Antenor potuit mediis elapsus Achivis,
Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus
Regna Liburnorum et fontem superare Timavi;
Unde per ora novem magno cum murmure mentis
It mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti,
Hie tamen ille urbem Patavi, sedesque locavit
Teucrorum et genti nomen dedit, armaque fixit
Troia; nunc placida compostus pace quiescit.
TEneid. i.
THROUGH ITALY.
151
the spot which traditionary report represented as
the site of the historian’s dwelling'; or whether
it was erected on the ruin of some ancient edifice
that bore a name resembling his ; or whether, in
short, some inscription favorable to such an
opinion, may have been found in or near it, I
could not discover; but every object connected
in the most distant manner with so eminent an
author, inspires interest and claims some atten-
tion. I need not observe, that the pretended
tomb of Antenor, though it recals to mind the
antiquity of the city, and at the same time some
very beautiful verses,* is a monument of some
prince of the middle ages, discovered in 1274.
Padua was famous in ancient times for its
woollen manufactures celebrated in prose by
Strabo and in verse by Martial. It still retains
much of its reputation in this respect, and its
* Antenor potuit mediis elapsus Achivis,
Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus
Regna Liburnorum et fontem superare Timavi;
Unde per ora novem magno cum murmure mentis
It mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti,
Hie tamen ille urbem Patavi, sedesque locavit
Teucrorum et genti nomen dedit, armaque fixit
Troia; nunc placida compostus pace quiescit.
TEneid. i.