c that it was some time before the in a cavity of some depth, but without the form of a tomb, twenty-two urns of travertine, with Etruscan and Latin inscrip¬ peasants could enter, is now placed at one side, and a wooden tions, and two other smaller ones of marble, a few bronzes door substituted.… … the glasses on the table, or even Vilius V'olumnius. taking refuge in the bosoms of the guests. It was sacred to the Manes, or deified spirits of the in of this tomb led to the discovery of the steps and the dead, and was the genius of the place, as it symbolized immor¬ great rock at the mouth of…
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