A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm)

A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "Orolta Qiulia commonly called the Cave of the Sibyl Torches are necessary for the examination of this grotto the local guides will supply them for 2 carlini When Agrippa constructed the Portus Julius he employed Coceen to excavate two tunnels to communicate between the new port and the cities of Cumee and Baiœ Virgil speaks of three caverns the first by which he makes the Sibyl conduct yEneas from Cumee to the spot where he has to offer his sacrifice to the infernal deities the second which they traverse to reach the borders of the Acheron the third with its hundred mouths where the Sibyl pronounced her oracles It is "
A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "possible that tlie first two may have been suggested to the poet by the tunnels of Agrippa the one leading from Cumm to Avernus the other from Avemus to the Lucrinc There is no doubt that many of the objects now around us suggested to the poet the general features of the scene as he imagined it to have been a thousand years before he wrote but it is surely destructive of all poetry to attempt to make the supernatural creations of the 6th book of the Eneid a topographical description of the district The tunnel called Gratta délia Siiiilla is that which led from Avernus to the sea shore on the road to Baiee The entrance is in the cliff on the S margin the lake under a brick arch leading into a long damp passage which was lighted "


A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "description of the district tunnel called Gratta délia Siiiilla that which led from Avernus to sea shore on the road to Baiee The entrance is in the cliff on the S margin the lake under a brick arch leading a long damp passage which was by vertical spiracula or air holes tunnel is cut through a hill of tufa the sides and roof in many places been strengthenedwithreticulated brickwork About midway between the lakes is a narrow passage on the rt leading to a small square apartment in which if we are to believe the were the Faucet Orel "

A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "this is a chamber traces a mosaic pavement some vestiges of mosaics on the wall and two recesses the whole arrangement of the apartment clearly proving that it was warm bath The floor is covered the depth of a foot witli tepid which springs in one of the chambers This is called by the the Sath of the Sibyl the traveller carried into it on the back of the guide An opening near this now closed up has been called one of the secret of the Sibyl in all probability it into another chamber The other tunnel is in the cliff o the W side of "
A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "lake it is accessible only for a distance and as it presents no of interest it is seldom explored direction however loaves no doubt it was the ancient subterranean com munieation between the shores of lake and Cumœ see 302 "

A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the ... By John Murray (Firm): "cuous object on the E whore the smaller canal now excavating is to enter It is an extensive ruin octangular externally and circular within and about 100 feet in diameter It has windows in the upper part several chambers in the rear and others at the side one of which lias a vaulted roof with a large aperture in the centre The form of this chamber and the arrangement of the whole building show that it was a bath of considerable magnificence Yet it has been called at various times the Temple of Hecate of Mercury of Pluto of Juno of Neptune and at last of Apollo In one ol the rooms there is still a mineral spring called the Acqua Capona "