lichen Grabstaetten in Rom_, in
the _Sitzungsberichte der kgl. Akademie der Wissenschaften_. Berlin,
1866.

[95] Visitors to Rome may form an idea of a [Greek: sebasteion] from
that found at Ostia, in 1889, in the barracks of the firemen. I have
given an illustrated description of this remarkable discovery in the
_Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome_, tome ix., 1889, and in the
_Notizie degli scavi_, January-April, 1889.

[96] The birthplace of Mithridates the Great, and of the geographer
Strabo; it still retains its ancient name.

[97] See Mommsen: _Res gestae divi Augusti_, 2d edition. Berlin,
Weidmann, 1883.

[98] Augustus enrolled his first army in October of the year 41 B. C.
He died in August, A. D. 14.

[99] This house is described in _Ancient Rome_, chapter i., p. 17.

[100] _Don Juan_, canto III. eix.

[101] The other instance was in the excavations of the palace of the
Valerii Aradii, near S. Erasmo, on the Caelian, the most successful
ever made in Rome.

[102] _La bolla di Maria, moglie di Onorio._ Milan, 1819.

[103] _Dissertazione su d' una antica argenteria, letta nell'
accademia archeologica il di 7 gennaio_, 1811.

CHAPTER V.

PAPAL TOMBS.

Portraits of the early Popes.--Those of SS. Peter and Paul.--The
tombs of the Popes.--Their interest for the student.--The tomb of
Cornelius Martyr.--Inscriptions and other monuments found in his
crypt.--The two Cornelii, pagan and Christian.--The pontifical
crypt in the Cemetery of Callixtus.--The tomb of Gregory the
Great.--S. Peter's as a burial-place for the Popes.--Gregory's
several resting-places.--The stress of Rome in his time.--The
legend of the angel.--Gregory's good works.--His house.--The tomb
of the Saxon Ceadwalla.--That of Benedict VII.--The turbulent
times in which he lived.--The Crescenzi.--The church of Santa
Croce in Gerusalemme.--Pope Sylvester II.--The tradition about
his death and tomb.--The vicissitudes of the Lateran
basilica.--The Vassalletti.--Study of the antique by mediaeval
artists.--The stone-cutter's shop on the site of the Banca
Nazionale.--The tomb of Innocent VIII.--The story of the holy
lance.--The tomb of Paul III.--His services to art.--The tomb of
Clement XIII.--Bracci and Canova.--The Jesuits in Clement's time.

Among the curiosities of the three principal basilicas of Rome,--the
Lateran, the Vatican, and the Ostiensis