228 JOHN EVELYN 



into antiq lavors brought from Titus's Bathes ; some 



faire grotts and water works, that noble cascade where 



the ship daunces, with divers other pleasant inventions, 



walkes, terraces, meanders, fruite- trees, and a most goodly 



prospect over the greatest part of the Citty. One 



fountaine under the gate I must not omitt, consisting 



of three jettos of water gushing out of the mouthes 



or proboscis of bees (the armes of the late Pope), 



because of the inscription : 



Quid miraris Apem, quae mel de floribus haurit? 

 Si tibi mellitam gutture fundit aquam. 



We descried Mount Cascubus, famous for the generous 

 wine it heretofore produc'd, and so rid onward the 

 Appian Way, beset with myrtils, lentiscus, bayes, 

 pomegranads, and whole groves of orange-trees, and 

 most delicious shrubbs, till we came to Formiana, 

 where they shew'd us Cicero's Tomb standing in an 

 olive grove, now a rude heap of stones, without forme 

 or beauty ; for here that incomparable Orator was 

 murther'd. I shall never forget how exceedingly I 

 was delighted with the sweetnesse of this passage, the 

 sepulcher mixed amongst all sorts of verdure. 



