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and Calabria, which contain fubjedts of the higheft 
erudition, but yet yet are unknown to, and difre- 
garded by, learned men ; while at the fame time they 
are fearching, with great expence and labour, after 
others in Greece and Afia, which are already known, 
and perhaps not fo intire as thefe. 1 have caufed a 
drawing to be made of the theatre above-mentioned, 
and fome time or other (probably) may offer it to 
the public. 
I have lately met with a curious differtation, pub- 
lifhed by a profeffor of the univerlity of Pifa, upon a 
gem, which exhibits the Theban war, with the names 
of five heroes engraved in Etrufcan characters upon 
it. You (in all probability) faw it at Florence, in 
the cabinet of Baron Stofch, who a few days ago was 
itruck with an apoplexy, and lies now at the point 
of death. 
FEW months ago, I published a difiertation upon 
a little marble relievo, infcribed with Greek cha- 
racters of the fmalleff fize. The fubjedt of it is the 
ftory of Circe, as related by Homer, Odyff. lib. x. 
It is really remarkable, that whereas there are extant 
feveral ancient monuments alluding to the Iliad of 
that poet, very few are found, which refer to the 
Odyffey. 
There has lately been difcovercd without the Porta 
Prcenejlina (or Maggiore) about four miles from 
Rome, an old fepulchral apartment, wherein were 
LETTER III. 
Rome, Jan. 31, 1759. 
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