Errances dans le Roman campagna qui mobilleavec . le repas était servi. Pour faire plaisir à ses invités, l'Hortensius convoqué la présence d'Orphée [musicien] ahired, qui est apparu vêtu d'une longue robe, d'une lyre dans ses mains ; mais au lieu de la lyre il soundedthe huntsmans horn, et l'appel est répondu à un certain nombre d'bysuch les sangliers et cervidés que nous thoughtto ont été soudain transféré au cirque sur une bonne fête aux performances de chasse. Pour atteindre sa maison de Rome, Pline avait l'choiceof quatre routes, - l'Ostiensis, la Laurentina, la LAVI-niatis, et d'un cross lane par l'Ager Solonius (cas-te

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Wanderings in the Roman campagna . topof which the meal was served. To please his guests, Hortensius summoned the attendance of Orpheus [ahired musician], who appeared clad in a long robe, witha lyre in his hands; but instead of the lyre he soundedthe huntsmans horn, and the appeal was answered bysuch a number of wild boars and deer that we thoughtto have been suddenly transferred to the Circus on theday of a hunting performance. To reach his cottage from Rome, Pliny had the choiceof four roads, — the Ostiensis, the Laurentina, the Lavi-niatis, and a cross lane through the Ager Solonius (Cas-tel Porziano). These four were connected and madeec[ually serviceable to him by the Via Severiana, whichran parallel with the shore. I have followed each ofthese lines of communication, by special permission ofHis Majesty the King, to whom the territory of Lauren- Particulars about these excavations are to be found in Pietro MarquezsDelia villa di Plinio il giovane and in Feas Viaggio ad Ostia. 308 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. A view of the pine forest near Laureiitum turn belongs; and the results of my labors have beenmade known to students m a memoh published by theReale Accademia dei Lincei in 1903, amply illustratedwith maps and diagrams. The path from Ostia and Castel Fusano to Plinys villaat La Palombara, and thence to the Vicus Augustanusand Laurentum (Torre Paterna), runs through the pineforest planted by the Sacchetti in the seventeenth century, the area of wdiich has been trebled since it was joined tothe royal shooting preserves in 1875. Many thousandpines are planted every year and great care is taken tokeep the older ones in a healthy state. The pavementof the Via Severiana is seen at rare intervals, flanked on Le iintichita del territorlo Laurentino nella reale Tenuta di CastelPorziano, in Monumcnii anticJii. -ol. xiii, 190, ?, |ip. 13-1-198. A secondpaper on the same subject was published in vol. xvi, 1906, pp. 262-274.A third is now in press. THE LAND OF PLI

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