same pavements, under this same sky, in those miraculous times, the most
interesting in history, viz.: the eighth century of Rome and the first
of the Christian era.

[Footnote A: The money accruing from this sale is applied to the
Pompeian library mentioned elsewhere.]




II.

THE FORUM.

DIOMED'S INN.--THE NICHE OF MINERVA.--THE APPEARANCE AND THE
MONUMENTS OF THE FORUM.--THE ANTIQUE TEMPLE.--THE PAGAN EX-VOTO
OFFERINGS.--THE MERCHANTS' CITY EXCHANGE AND THE PETTY
EXCHANGE.--THE PANTHEON, OR WAS IT A TEMPLE, A SLAUGHTER-HOUSE, OR
A TAVERN?--THE STYLE OF COOKING AND THE FORM OF RELIGION.--THE
TEMPLE OF VENUS.--- THE BASILICA.--THE INSCRIPTIONS OF PASSERS-BY
UPON THE WALLS.--THE FORUM REBUILT.


As you alight at the station, in the first place breakfast at the
_popina_ of Diomed. It is a tavern of our own day, which has assumed an
antique title to please travellers. You may there drink Falernian wine
manufactured by Scala, the Neapolitan chemist, and, should you ask for
some _jentaculum_ in the Roman style--_aliquid scitamentorum_,
_glandionidum suillam taridum_, _pernonidem_, _sinciput aut omenta
porcina_, _aut aliquid ad eum modum_--they will serve you a beefsteak