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hill at the east of the entrance is the village of Cantalupo or Bardella, which has now assumed the name of Mandela, being identified thus (correctly) with Horace's " rugosus frigore pagus " (Epist. i. r8, 104). An inscription of the See also:

Christian See also:

period, found at S Cosimato, speaks of the See also:

MASSA

Massa Mandelana (Corp. Inscr.

See also:

Lat. xiv. 3482). About 3 M. Up the valley, close to the road on the See also:

west (right) bank of the stream, are traces of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman dwelling-See also:

house in See also:

OPUS ('O7rois)

opus reticulatum with remains of two See also:

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

mosaic pavements; this is generally identified with the See also:

VILLA

villa of Horace, and probably corresponds fairly closely with its site. That the Fons Bandusiae was near the Sabine farm is not a necessary inference from Od. iii. 13, in which alone it is mentioned; though the scholiasts See also:

state it; indeed a See also:

FOUNTAIN (Late Lat. fontana, from ions, a spring)

fountain of this name near See also:

VENUSIA (mod. Venosa, q.v.)

Venusia is mentioned in a See also:

bull of 1103. On the other See also:

hand, that there was an abundant fountain near the Sabine farm is clear from Epist. i. 16. 12, and Sat. ii. 6. 2. It is generally identified with the Fonte dei Ratini, but the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of Vigna la See also:

CORTE

Corte, a little farther See also:

north, is still more plentiful.

Some have supposed that the site of the villa was higher up the hillside, above Rocca Giovane. For Horace speaks of having written Epist. i. to " See also:

POST

post fanum putre Vacunae," and an inscription recording a See also:

temple of See also:

Victoria restored by See also:

VESPASIAN

Vespasian was copied at Rocca Giovane in the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century (Corp. Inscr. Lat. XiV. 3485). The See also:

IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification of Victoria with the Sabine goddess Vacuna is not, however, absolutely certain: and there is here, as elsewhere in Roman literature, a See also:

PLAY

play on the connexion of the name with vacare, " to take a See also:

HOLIDAY

holiday." In any See also:

case, the site of the Sabine farm can be approximately, if not exactly, fixed as in the neighbourhood of Rocca Giovane. See T. Berti, La villa di See also:

ORAZIO (c. 1565—1646)

Orazio (Rome, 1886) ; G. See also:

BOISSIER, MARIE LOUIS ANTOINE GASTON (1823—1908)

Boissier, Nouvelles promenades archeologiques (See also:

Paris, 1886). (T.

End of Article: VARIA (mod. Vicovaro)

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