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262 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch. V1IL
basso relievo ; one represents a philosopher sit-
ting* with a scroll in his hand, in a thinking1 pos-
ture; in the other, are four figures supporting
the feet of a fifth of a colossal size supposed to
represent Ajax. These, with the beautiful pil-
lars that support the church, are the only rem-
nants of the decorations and furniture of the
ancient villa. Conjiciant, says an inscription,
quce et quanta fueriqit*.
The plane tree, which Cicero in the person of
Scaevola notices with so much complacency in
the introduction to the first book De Oratore,
still seems to love the soil, and blooms and flou-
rishes in peculiar perfection all aroundf. One in
* The church contains little remarkable excepting the
chapel of St. Nilus, painted by Dominichino in a masterly
style. The wail is separated into compartments, and in each
compartment is represented one of the principal actions of
the patron saint. The Demoniac boy near the altar, and St.
Nilus praying near the end of the chapel, are supposed to be
the two best.
f Me haec tua platanus admonuit, quae non minus ad opa-
candum hunc locum patulis est diffusa ramis, quam ilia cujus
umbram secutus est Socrates, quae mihi videtur non tam ipsa
aquul&, quae describitur quam Platonis oratione crevisse. De
Orat. i. 7.
basso relievo ; one represents a philosopher sit-
ting* with a scroll in his hand, in a thinking1 pos-
ture; in the other, are four figures supporting
the feet of a fifth of a colossal size supposed to
represent Ajax. These, with the beautiful pil-
lars that support the church, are the only rem-
nants of the decorations and furniture of the
ancient villa. Conjiciant, says an inscription,
quce et quanta fueriqit*.
The plane tree, which Cicero in the person of
Scaevola notices with so much complacency in
the introduction to the first book De Oratore,
still seems to love the soil, and blooms and flou-
rishes in peculiar perfection all aroundf. One in
* The church contains little remarkable excepting the
chapel of St. Nilus, painted by Dominichino in a masterly
style. The wail is separated into compartments, and in each
compartment is represented one of the principal actions of
the patron saint. The Demoniac boy near the altar, and St.
Nilus praying near the end of the chapel, are supposed to be
the two best.
f Me haec tua platanus admonuit, quae non minus ad opa-
candum hunc locum patulis est diffusa ramis, quam ilia cujus
umbram secutus est Socrates, quae mihi videtur non tam ipsa
aquul&, quae describitur quam Platonis oratione crevisse. De
Orat. i. 7.