. CRETICI. F. METELLAE. CRASSI."

"The Savelli family were in possession of the fortress in 1312, and the
German army of Henry VII. marched from Rome, attacked, took, and burnt
it, but were unable to make themselves, by force, masters of the
citadel--that is, the tomb." The "fence of stone" refers to the
quadrangular basement of concrete, on which the circular tower rests.
The tower was originally coated with marble, which was stripped off for
the purpose of making lime. The work of destruction is said to have been
carried out during the interval between Poggio's (see his _De Fort.
Var._, ap. Sall., _Nov. Thes. Ant. Rom._, 1735, i. 501, _sq._) first and
second visits to Rome. (See Hobhouse's _Hist. Illust._, pp. 202, 203;
_Handbook for Rome_, p. 360.)]

[ob] {403} _So massily begirt--what lay?_----.--[MS. M.]

[oc] {404} _Love from her duties--still a conqueress in the war_.--[MS.
M. erased.]

[481]
[Greek: On oi(theoi\ philou~sin a)pothne/skei ne/os]
[Greek: To\ ga\r thanei~n ou)ch ai)schro\n, a)ll' ai)schro~s thanei~n].
_Gnomici Poetae Graeci_, R. F. P. Brunck, 1784, p. 231.

[482] {405} ["It is more likely to have been the pride than the love of
Crassus which raised so superb a memorial to a wife whose name is not
mentioned in history, unless she be supposed to be that lady whose
intimacy with Dolabella was so offensive to Tullia, the daughter of
Cicero, or she who was divorced by Lentulus Spinther, or she, perhaps
the same person, from whose ear the son of AEsopus transferred a precious
jewel to enrich his daughter (_vide_ Hor., _Sat._, ii. 3. 239)" (_Hist.
Illust._, p. 200). The wealth of Crassus was proverbial, as his
_agnomen_, Dives, testifies (Plut., _Crassus_, ii., iii., Lipsiae, 1813,
v. 156, _sq._).]

[od] {406}

_Till I had called forth even from the mind_.--[MS. M. erased.]
----_with heated mind_.--[MS. M.]

[oe] _I have no home_----.--[MS. M.]

[483] {407} [Compare Rogers's _Italy:_ "Rome" (_Poems_, 1852), ii. 169--

"Or climb the Palatine,
* * * * *
Long while the seat of Rome, hereafter found
Less than enough (so monstrous was the brood
Engendered there, so Titan-like) to lodge
One in his madness; and inscribe my name--
My name and date, on some broad aloe-leaf
That shoots and spreads within those very walls
Where Virgil read aloud his tale divine,
When his voice faltered