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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IX
was violent; it had diminished when we reached
the stage called the Torre de Alezzavia, an-
ciently Ad Mediant, and after changing horses,
we drove on to Albano. From Albano the road
winds at present, or at least winded when we
passed it, round the beautiful little valley of
Aricia, formed by some of the lower ramifica-
tions of the Alban Mount, and presented on the
left a fine view of Albano, Aricia, Galaura,
Monte Giove, Gensano, all gilded by the rays
of the sun, just then bursting from the skirts of
the storm, and taking his farewell sweet. These
glowing tints were set off to great advantage by
the dark back ground, formed by the groves and
evergreen forests that clothe the higher regions
of the mountain. Night shortly after closed
upon us, and deprived us of several interesting
views which we might have enjoyed from the
lofty situation of the road, that still continued to
run along the side of the hill. Among other ob-
jects, we lost on our left the view of Lavinia,
anciently Lanuvium, so often mentioned by Ci-
cero as connected with Milo,* and alluded to by
Horace as infested by wolves.f
We arrrived about twelve o’clock at Velletri,
* Cic. Pro. Mil.
t ...... ab agro
Rava decurrens lupa Lanuvino. Lib. iii. 27.
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IX
was violent; it had diminished when we reached
the stage called the Torre de Alezzavia, an-
ciently Ad Mediant, and after changing horses,
we drove on to Albano. From Albano the road
winds at present, or at least winded when we
passed it, round the beautiful little valley of
Aricia, formed by some of the lower ramifica-
tions of the Alban Mount, and presented on the
left a fine view of Albano, Aricia, Galaura,
Monte Giove, Gensano, all gilded by the rays
of the sun, just then bursting from the skirts of
the storm, and taking his farewell sweet. These
glowing tints were set off to great advantage by
the dark back ground, formed by the groves and
evergreen forests that clothe the higher regions
of the mountain. Night shortly after closed
upon us, and deprived us of several interesting
views which we might have enjoyed from the
lofty situation of the road, that still continued to
run along the side of the hill. Among other ob-
jects, we lost on our left the view of Lavinia,
anciently Lanuvium, so often mentioned by Ci-
cero as connected with Milo,* and alluded to by
Horace as infested by wolves.f
We arrrived about twelve o’clock at Velletri,
* Cic. Pro. Mil.
t ...... ab agro
Rava decurrens lupa Lanuvino. Lib. iii. 27.