A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Herculaneum Found
A Description of the First Discoveries of the Antient City of Herculaneum Found
Niccol Marcello Venuti
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Pervenit etiam Roman uique. Quin etiam «' aer totus imminens pulvere oppletus fuit. Sol etiam obtene- •' bratus, obfcuretui'que eft. Nee parvus metus fuit per multcs " dies. Nefciebant homines, quod fadlum ell, nee conjedari, " unde faftum eft. Exiftimabant enim quas fupra, & infra " erant, cverti : Sokm in terram defcendere, Cinis auten\ 0' nonnihil m^gni incommodi attulit (i). This fatal Cataftrophe was preceded, as I have cbferved be- fore, hy a terrible Earthquake, in the Vear of Chrift 65,... in the Time of the Confuls IRcguIus and Virginius, which deftroyed the preater Part of Uerciilancipn ; hence many are of Opinion, that at th?. T Time perifhed the People in the Theatre; and that it was again deftroyed by Fefitvius ; whi:;h I hope I fliall be able (o prove from thcfe fame Difcoveries of Antiquity (2). It being ^nncceffary (j) Vi'Jc Zip'nllmus in his Tranflation of Philander- (2) See Seneca in lib. Vi. Ot" natural Queftions. Pliny in Epift. Vj, Dion (Caflius inlib. Ixvi. Or rather hi?
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