. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . Eoman helmet.The abortive figures on the left probably represent one ofthe victors on some elevated spot, dragging a prisoner, withhis arms bound, after him up the ladder which leads to it. Itmight not have been very easy to decipher all this ; but likethe sign-painter who found it necessary to write under hisproduction, This is a. bear! the artist or artists havethought it prudent to subjoin th
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. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . Eoman helmet.The abortive figures on the left probably represent one ofthe victors on some elevated spot, dragging a prisoner, withhis arms bound, after him up the ladder which leads to it. Itmight not have been very easy to decipher all this ; but likethe sign-painter who found it necessary to write under hisproduction, This is a. bear! the artist or artists havethought it prudent to subjoin the following inscription, which, in point of Latin, is much on a par with the draw-ing :— Campani victoria una cum Nucerinis peristis; which may be interpreted, Campanians, you perished invictory together with the Nucerians. Four years after this occurrence, an earthquake, whichtook place on the 5th February, a.d. 63, and has beenrecorded by Seneca, threw down a great part of Pompeii, andeonsiderably injured Herculaneum and other towns. A ? Tac. Ann. xiv. 17, HISTOKICAL NOTICE. 35 flock, he says, * of six hundred sheep were swallowed up, statues were split, and many persons lost their reason.*. The following year another earthquake took place whilst * Sen, Q.N., vi. 1.—Tac. Anu. xv. 22 & 34. 36 poi^rPEii. Nero was singing at Naples; the building, unfortunately, fell immediately after the emperor had left it. Vestiges ofthe injury done by these shocks may even now be seen in thehouses which have been excavated at Pompeii, where themosaic floors are often much out of their level, twisted andbroken, and show the repairs which had been made by theinhabitants themselves. These alarms, the usual presages of a near eruption, werefrom time to time repeated until the ^th of August, a.d. 79, the day on which, after a cessation of ages, the ftrst recordedvolcanic paroxysm of Vesuvius occurred. By an unusual good fortune we are in possession of a faith-ful narrative, furnished by an eye-wit