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fuppofed to produce in “ fufpending forrow and anxiety.” 
This mountain is faid to be beautiful in the extreme, 
and to be juftly honoured with its appellation, as no 
fcene is better calculated to banith melancholy and exhi¬ 
larate the mind. The grotto is nearly a mile in length, 
ar.d is made through the mountain, twenty feet in breadth 
and thirty in height. On the mountain, Vedius Pollio 
had not only a villa, but a refervoiror pond, in which he 
kept a number of lampreys, to which he ufed to throw 
luch of his flaves as had committed a fault. When he 
died, he bequeathed, among other parts of his pofleffions, 
his villa to Auguftus; but this monarch, abhorring a 
place where fo many ill-fated creatures had loll their 
lives for very flight faults, caufed the pond to be filled 
up, the houfe to be demolilhed, and the fineft materials 
in it to be brought to Rome, and with them railed Julia’s 
portico. 
Virgil’s tomb is faid to be above the entrance of the 
grotto of Paufilipo. A vaulted cell and two modern 
windows above prefent themfelves to view : the poet’s 
name is the only ornament of the place. No farcopha- 
gus, no urn, and even no infcription, ferve to feed the 
devotion of the claflical pilgrim. The epitaph, though, 
not genuine, is yet ancient; it was infcribed by order of 
the duke of Pefcolangiano, the proprietor of the place, 
on a marble flab placed in the fide of the rock oppofite 
to the entrance of the tomb, where it Hill remains. It is 
as follows: 
Mantua me genuif, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc 
Parthenope, cecini pafcua, rura, duces. 
An Italian author, fuppofed to be Pietro de Steffano, 
allures us that he himfelf had feen, about the year 1526, 
the urn fuppofed to contain the poet’s allies, Handing in 
the middle of the fepulchre, fupported by nine little 
marble pillars, with the infcription juft quoted on the 
frieze. He adds, that Robert of Anjou, apprehenlive 
left fuch a precious relic fliould be carried off or deftroyed 
during the wars then raging in the kingdom, took the urn 
and pillars from the tomb, and depolited them in the 
Caltel Nuovo. This extreme precaution eventually oc- 
cafioned the lofs which it was meant to prevent: for, not- 
withftanding the moft laborious fearch and frequent in¬ 
quiries made by theordersof Alphonfoof Arragon, they 
were never more difcovered. Some, indeed, have afferted 
that the tomb juft mentioned is not the fepulchre of 
Virgil : among thefe we may reckon Cluverius and Ad- 
difon. The reader will learn with regret that Virgil’s 
tomb, confecrated as it ought to have been to genius and 
meditation, is fometimes converted into the retreat of 
afl'affms, or the lurking-place of fbirri. Few places, how¬ 
ever, are in themfelves more pifturefque; and, from the 
recolleftion infeparably interwoven with it, no fpot is 
more interefting. The whole hill of Paufilipo is covered 
with country-feats and gardens, for fummer refort, being 
protected from the hot louth and weft. In the middle of 
the paffage is a church or chapel ; but the dull raifed by 
the horfes and carriages is very offenfive. 
PAU'SINGLY, adv. Afterapaufe; by breaks.—This 
paujhigly enfued. ShakeJp care’s Hen. VIII. 
PAU'SUS, j. in entomology, a genus of infefts of the 
order coleoptera. Generic characters—Antennae two- 
jointed, the upper joint very large, infleCted, hooked, pe- 
dicillate ; head pointing forwards, with a convex, jugu¬ 
lar, triangle; thorax narrow, unequal, fcutellate ; fhells 
flexile, deflefted, truncate; fore-feet placed at the fore¬ 
part of the breaft, thighs with minute appendages, the 
tarfi four-jointed. 
This genus does not exift in the twelfth edition of the 
Syftema Naturae, but made its firft appearance in a Differ- 
tation publilhed at Upfal by Linnceus in the year 1775. 
At that period only one fpecies was known. In the year 
1796, Dr. Adam Afzelius, then refiding at the Britiflt 
fettlement at Sierra Leone, difcovered a fecond, and has 
defcribed both with elaborate exaCtnefs in a paper on this 
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genus publiflied in the fourth volume of the Tranfac- 
tionsofthe Linnaean Society of London. The etymo¬ 
logy of the name Dr. Afzelius imagines to be from the 
Greek Tratio-i;, fignifying “ paufe, ceflhtion, or reft;” for 
Linnaeus, now old and infirm, and finking under the 
weight of age and labour, faw no probability of conti¬ 
nuing any longer his career of glory ; and lo it in reality 
proved, at leaft with regard to infeCts, Paufus being the 
iaft he ever defcribed. There are now five fpecies. 
x. Paufus microcephalus, the fmall-headed paufus: 
the head is uncommonly fmall, and without horns ; the 
thorax broader than the head, and very uneven, the two 
parts being entirely feparated by a tranfverfe furrow'; the 
foremoft divifion is elevated into a ftiarp ridge refembling 
a collar, and the hindmoft is depreffed or cut out in the 
middle into a cavity, which is obtufe behind, dilated and 
deepened before, and encompaffed on the fides with diver¬ 
ging and outwardly-declining lobes, being rounded at 
the top, and provided with fliining hairs of a fulvous co¬ 
lour and bent inwards. The elytra are without dots, 
and rather longer than the abdomen ; the under or real 
wings are footy, and without the leaft gloflinefs. The 
abdomen has the terminal fegment very retufe, and the 
margin of the next before it is vifibly raifed. The pivots 
of the antennae are black, very bright, and at firft fight 
might be eafily taken for eyes; the under joint is fur- 
niflied with a wart on the inner margin of the top, co¬ 
vered with papillary or cartilaginous hairs ; the upper 
joint, or clava, is dotted, much larger than the head, and 
of the fhape of an oblong fpheroid, being rounded in. 
front and compreffed, with the carina raifed into a ftiarp 
edge, provided on the vertex with four tubercles fet in a 
row and tipped with hairs, and elongated behind into an 
obtufe tube, laterally compreffed, above depreffed, and 
underneath having a knob, which, in moving, touches a 
bundle of hairs on the top of the under joint: the pedi¬ 
cle is long and crooked, its upper being broader, com- 
prefled, and keeled in front. The interior palpi are of a 
lanceolate-oblong fhape, and furniftied with very minute 
hinges. The mandibles have fmall hinges, and the infe¬ 
rior flieath is much larger than the fuperior. The hind¬ 
legs are a little fliorter than the others : the joints of the 
tarfi are difficultly diftinguiffied. This rare infedt is a 
native of Banana ifland, and Sierra Leone in Africa. Its 
colour is a blackiffi brown. It is reprefented on the an¬ 
nexed Plate, of the natural fize, at fig. 1. magnified at 
fig. 2. and the head magnified at fig. 3. 
2. Paufus fphaerocerus, the horned paufus. Thus de¬ 
fcribed by Dr. Afzelius. “ I had been in Africa almoft 
three years before I happened to meet with this remark¬ 
able little infect; and then it was quite accidentally. 
There was a houfe building for the governor, on an emi¬ 
nence called Thornton Hill at the fouth endofFree- 
Town in Sierra Leone; and in the beginning of the year 
1795, feveral apartments having been got ready fo as to 
be habitable, one of them was allotted to me, and I re¬ 
moved into it in the end of the month of January. I 
had not refided there many days, when one evening, hav¬ 
ing juft lighted my candle and begun to write, I obferved 
fotnething dropping down from the ceiling before me 
upon the table; which, from its Angular appearance, at- 
tradled my particular attention. It remained for a little 
while quite immoveable, as if ftunned or frightened, but 
began foon to crawl very flowly and fteadily. I then 
caught it, and, from the remembrance I had of the Lin¬ 
naean fpecies, I direftly took it for a non-defcript of this 
genus. Some few days after, coming into my room from 
fupper, with alight in my hand, and having put it upon 
the table, there inftantly fell another down from the ceil¬ 
ing. The third I was favoured with by the then gover¬ 
nor, Mr. Dawes, who informed me that it had dropped 
down before him on the table, juft when he had entered 
his room, and was going to write. The other three, 
which I afterwards colledted, were alfo got upon fimilar 
occafions; and from thence I thought I had fome reafon 
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