2.36 STUDIES OF NAtURE. 



** and roufing into fury the thunder-impregnated 

 *' clouds. You farther fee thefe two ruinous ci- 

 *' ties, with walls crumbling into duft, the fad re- 

 *' mains and venerable monuments of perfonages 

 *' who flourifhed in ages long fmce pall. Jamts 

 " founded the one, and Saturn the other : hence, 

 ^' this obtained the name of Janiculum, and that, 

 ^' of Saturnia." 



Here are the principal monuments of Rome, as 

 well as the earlieft religious eftablifhments, afcribed 

 to the Arcadians. The Romans celebrated the 

 feaft of Saturn in the month of December. During 

 that period of feftivity, the mafters and the flaves 

 fat down at the fame table ; and thefe laft theft 

 enjoyed the liberty of faying, and of doing, what- 

 ever they pleafed, in memory of the ancient equa- 

 lity of Mankind, which prevailed in the reign of 

 Saturn. The altar, and the gate, CarnientaliSy long 

 fubfifted at Rome, as well as the grotto of Pant- 

 Lupercal, which was under Mount Palatine. 



firgil oppofes, with the ability of a great Mafter, 

 the ruflicity of the ancient Sites, which furrounded 

 the fmall Arcadian city of Pallanteum, to the mag- 

 nificence of thofe very places within the precindts 

 of Rome J and their rude altar, with their venerable 

 and religious traditions, ufider Evander, to the 

 gilded temples of a city, in which nothing vene- 

 rable 



