Capitolo 65
on the wall, perhaps of a wine-shop where he stopped for refreshment:[72]
"Of here we have entered safety.
I now hasten me on my way,
What once more you/he/she can be mine
To see our Lares Rome."
All of a sudden in a road of Pompeian, the eye of a lost would take this
I tell in doggerel verse:[73]
"Here is any place for dawdlers.
Dawdler, stir long!"
On the wall of a wine-shop a maid to the bench has advertised so his/her wares:[74]
"Here for a cent it is a drink,
Two cents bring better still anything.
Four cents in everybody, if You pay,
Wine of Falernum is the Your."
It is due to be a direct descendant of one of the parasites of Plautus
who the wrote:[75]
"A barbarian that he is to me
To of who house me he/she doesn't wonder to dine."
Here is a feeling that seems very modern:
"The common opinion is this:
That ownership should be separated."[76]
This touch of the modernity remembers to one of another of group of verses that
hands the antiquity in the possible nearer touch with some actual
practices. The Romans, as us they were the great travellers and
visitors and the wonder of Egypt particularly it appealed to them, as
they does to us with irresistible strength. Above all, the great statue of
Memnon that gave before a strange sound when it was stricken within the first one
rays of the rising sun, drew far travellers from and nearby. Those of us that
knows the Mammoth Cavern, you Fall of the Niagara, the Garden of the Of the or some
other of our disposition wonders, it will recall as affectionate a certain class of
visitors are to immortalize their names or a being scratched
the feeling on the walls or the stones that form these wonder. This way
registrations We find on the walls of temple in Egypt--three of them appear
on the statue of Memnon, recording in toward the fact that the writers had
visited the statue and it heard the voice of the aurora god. One of these
Egyptian travellers, a certain Roman lady that travels on the Nile they have
scratched these verses on a wall of the temple to Memphis:[77]