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SECOND APPENDIX TO PRIMITIVE FORTIFICATIONS.
THE LUPERCAL OF AUGUSTUS,
THE CAVE OF PICUS AND FAUNUS(?), AND OF CACUS (?),
AND THE MAMERTINE PRISON.
NOTICE.
The exact sites of the Lupercal or Wolf’s Cave, the cave of
Picus and Faunus, or Cacus (?) (used as the mouth of the aque-
ducts), and of the great Prison of the Kings of Rome, have all
been ascertained within the last few years, and the construction is
an important part of the evidence by which they are established.
It seems, therefore, expedient to add them to this chapter, instead
of waiting for the publication of the other parts of this work on
the topographical arrangement in the Regiones, which must be de-
layed until the important excavations Of the Forum Romanum, now
going on, are completed, at least as far as to ascertain all the main
points, a great deal of which has already been done.
The substance of these discoveries was given in a Lecture to the
British Archaeological Society of Rome, and printed for them in
1869, but this pamphlet has been out of print for some time, and
the information is therefore not accessible, and the subject forms
a necessary part of the present work. In the account of these I
have had much assistance from Dr. Fabio Gori, who was in my
employ for some years in directing the excavations, and drawing
up an account of them. He was well acquainted with the records
of excavations previously made in searching for statues, &c., of
which memoirs were preserved by eye-witnesses, chiefly Flaminius
Vacca, and which were collected and published by Fea in a volume
called “ Miscellanea,” now difficult to obtain. I was not acquainted
with this volume until afterwards. Dr. Gori also knew how to get
access to the cellars and to the vineyards, which a stranger cannot
do, and it was not until I had been in Rome several seasons that
I understood how these things are managed. The relative position
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THE LUPERCAL OF AUGUSTUS,
THE CAVE OF PICUS AND FAUNUS(?), AND OF CACUS (?),
AND THE MAMERTINE PRISON.
NOTICE.
The exact sites of the Lupercal or Wolf’s Cave, the cave of
Picus and Faunus, or Cacus (?) (used as the mouth of the aque-
ducts), and of the great Prison of the Kings of Rome, have all
been ascertained within the last few years, and the construction is
an important part of the evidence by which they are established.
It seems, therefore, expedient to add them to this chapter, instead
of waiting for the publication of the other parts of this work on
the topographical arrangement in the Regiones, which must be de-
layed until the important excavations Of the Forum Romanum, now
going on, are completed, at least as far as to ascertain all the main
points, a great deal of which has already been done.
The substance of these discoveries was given in a Lecture to the
British Archaeological Society of Rome, and printed for them in
1869, but this pamphlet has been out of print for some time, and
the information is therefore not accessible, and the subject forms
a necessary part of the present work. In the account of these I
have had much assistance from Dr. Fabio Gori, who was in my
employ for some years in directing the excavations, and drawing
up an account of them. He was well acquainted with the records
of excavations previously made in searching for statues, &c., of
which memoirs were preserved by eye-witnesses, chiefly Flaminius
Vacca, and which were collected and published by Fea in a volume
called “ Miscellanea,” now difficult to obtain. I was not acquainted
with this volume until afterwards. Dr. Gori also knew how to get
access to the cellars and to the vineyards, which a stranger cannot
do, and it was not until I had been in Rome several seasons that
I understood how these things are managed. The relative position
H