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young favourite across the Bay to the Palsestrum at 

 Puteoli, and back again at the regular hour, when the 

 scholars were dismissed, are aU sites which he will en- 

 deavour to make out. Nor on ground preoccupied by 

 the most celebrated vivaria of antiquity, where orators, 

 poets, men of fashion, and conscript fathers, vied with 

 each other in the various arts of breeding, taming, and 

 adorning their scaly broods, will he fail to consider at- 

 tentively every rood as he walks over it, nor return to 

 Naples till his mind is quite made up what dip repre- 

 sents the bed of the lakelet at Bauli, where, at the 

 keeper's call, bedizened mursense would shake their jew- 

 elled heads at the wonderiug crowds, and then retire to 

 the depths again ; where it was that Hirpinus, and after 

 him other proprietors formed anastamosiag ponds to 

 keep separate their cockles, oysters, and wiakles, accord- 

 ing to the fastidious notions of the gourmets of their 

 day; nor, finally, on re-embarking after this piscatory 

 survey, will he forget that he is following, perhaps, the 

 very track which Claudius's doughty high-admiral Op- 

 tatus once ploughed on the parrot-fish protective service 



for the treatment of sore eyes ; over these Ms freedman, Lauria 

 TuUus, put up a Latin inscription, of which, the following is a 

 quaint translation, written 250 years ago : — 



Oh, prince of Eoman eloquence, lo ! here thy grove, in place 

 How green it is ! When planted first, it was to grow apace ; 

 And Vetus, now who holds thy house, fair Academic hight, 

 Spares for no cost, hut it maintains, and keeps in hetter plight. 

 Of late, also, fresh fountains here breake forth out of the ground, 

 Most holesome for to bath sore eyes, which earst were never 



found. 

 These helpful springs, the soile, no doubt, presenting to our view. 

 To Cicero, her aunoient lord, hath done this honour due ; 

 That since his books throughout the world are red by many a 



wight. 

 More waters stUl may cleare their eyes, and cure decaying sight. 



