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 2G6 EXPLORATIONS IX HOME. The other of these tombs is far more interesting and important, because we have the effigy of the youth perfect. He is represented in the toga, and carries in his hand a scroll, covered with a Greek inscription, which we are told by another inscription in Latin on the flat surface of the slab, were the Greek verses which he had recited extempore, and by which he had gained the Greek prize against lilty- two competitors in the fifth Lustrum. The Latin verses by whieh he obtained the Latin prize, are also inscribed upon the Hat surface of the tomb, together with another inscrip- tion as the record of these facts by his parents mourning for his loss, lie seems indeed to have been a promising- youth, and had probably overworked his brain too young, a caution to other scholars. Ilis name was, — <»VINTVS SVLPITIVS MAXIMVS. The fifth quinquennial Lustrum was also in the time of the I'^mperor ])omitian (a.d. 8G).- The remains of the old paved road, and ol an aqueduct, were also found under iliis gate at a considerable depth. In the public burial-ground near the church of S. Lorenzo, outside the walls formerly called i(i Campus W'rauus, two eleiiant small marljle statues have been found this season. One represents the goddess tkllvs, or the Earlh, iicrsonificil. The figure is seated, and holds a sceptre in the left hand ; the right hand is broken oil". An inscription on the base states that avlvs noirrENSivs ceudo dedicated this statue to " jlother Karth," tekkae matui. A. IIOUTENSIVS • CEKDO ' DKAE ' IMAK " i:t coNSEUVATinci • Mr.Ai: • i>. d. The Cavaliere De Rossi has carrietl on his excavations in the Catacombs of Tretextatus and of S. Calixtus, opening some new corridors and fmding s(jme new inscriptions, of which an account will apprar in his excellent Joiunal, the JiulluliiK} di ArflKioUHjia (.'/iristiuun. The monks of ►S. Agnes •' have also carrietl (»n some important excavations ill their catacomb. TIicm- arc of great interest and imj)ort- ' The C'avalioro Viwconti Iijim written ft l>y tlic " Ktnimii Kxiiloration Kiinil," and liook on ttiu Hiibjcct of tliU tomb from have apiiliol for froah aitHiMtancc, which thu inMcrii'tionK ii|miii it, with a fncnimiU* will bo givt IhoAO good tnonkii hnvu been helped