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POMPELANA. 137
was, perhaps, the cone, or germ, like the egg of
inert matter1.
1 Outline of a painting, representing a combat
between two gladiators. Their helmets^ and boots
are brazen; the former has eye holes; the plumes
blue. Lipsius says, only the Samnites were
crested. They wear a red tunic, or subligacu-
lum, with a bronze or leathern belt: their legs
armed with ochrea. The left arm was left to the
shield alone for defence. . *
2 Are gryphons painted upon a wall.
3 Is also a painted ornament upon a pilaster.
4 Border of a room painted in fresco. The orna-
ments are shaded upon a green ground, except a
part shown darker, which is red; the darkest tint
is blue.
6 Is a similar border; ground yellow, ornaments
brown and red.
PLATE XIX.
Is an attempt to give some idea of the principal
entrance to Pompeii, as it once existed.
The gateway is restored in the simplest manner pos-
sible, but the biga over it is imaginary. Of the
walls there can be no question. The pedestal
1 Macbobius, Sat. I. 19—20.
was, perhaps, the cone, or germ, like the egg of
inert matter1.
1 Outline of a painting, representing a combat
between two gladiators. Their helmets^ and boots
are brazen; the former has eye holes; the plumes
blue. Lipsius says, only the Samnites were
crested. They wear a red tunic, or subligacu-
lum, with a bronze or leathern belt: their legs
armed with ochrea. The left arm was left to the
shield alone for defence. . *
2 Are gryphons painted upon a wall.
3 Is also a painted ornament upon a pilaster.
4 Border of a room painted in fresco. The orna-
ments are shaded upon a green ground, except a
part shown darker, which is red; the darkest tint
is blue.
6 Is a similar border; ground yellow, ornaments
brown and red.
PLATE XIX.
Is an attempt to give some idea of the principal
entrance to Pompeii, as it once existed.
The gateway is restored in the simplest manner pos-
sible, but the biga over it is imaginary. Of the
walls there can be no question. The pedestal
1 Macbobius, Sat. I. 19—20.