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94 POMPEIANA.
was sacred to the god who presided over
gardens and country places; as in it was
found a most beautiful and exquisitely
wrought bronze tripod, supported by sa-
tyrs, with symbols emblematical of that
deity: it is now transferred to the private
Room in the Eoyal Museum at Naples.
Pan, whose feast was in the same
month as the feralia1, was probably here
worshipped.
Within this recess was found a hu-
man skeleton, of which the hand still
grasped a lance. Conjecture has ima-
gined this the remains of a sentinel, who
preferred dying at his post to quitting it
for the more ignominious death, which, in
conformity with the severe discipline of
his country, would have awaited him.
It may be remarked, that the street
of the tombs, as far as hitherto disco-
vered, contains the monuments of those
alone who had borne some office in the
state, and that in most cases the ground
v.
February 15.
was sacred to the god who presided over
gardens and country places; as in it was
found a most beautiful and exquisitely
wrought bronze tripod, supported by sa-
tyrs, with symbols emblematical of that
deity: it is now transferred to the private
Room in the Eoyal Museum at Naples.
Pan, whose feast was in the same
month as the feralia1, was probably here
worshipped.
Within this recess was found a hu-
man skeleton, of which the hand still
grasped a lance. Conjecture has ima-
gined this the remains of a sentinel, who
preferred dying at his post to quitting it
for the more ignominious death, which, in
conformity with the severe discipline of
his country, would have awaited him.
It may be remarked, that the street
of the tombs, as far as hitherto disco-
vered, contains the monuments of those
alone who had borne some office in the
state, and that in most cases the ground
v.
February 15.