[95] Visitors to Rome may form an idea of a σεβαστεῐον from that found at Ostia, in 1889, in the barracks of the firemen. I have given an illustrated description of this remarkable discovery in the _Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome_, tome ix., 1889, and in the _Notizie degli scavi_, January-April, 1889. [96] The birthplace of Mithridates the Great, and of the geographer Strabo; it still retains its ancient name. [97] See Mommsen: _Res gestæ divi Augusti_, 2d edition. Berlin, Weidmann, 1883. [98] Augustus enrolled his first army in October of the year 41 B. C. He died in August, A. D. 14. [99] This house is described in _Ancient Rome_, chapter i., p. 17. [100] _Don Juan_, canto III. eix. [101] The other instance was in the excavations of the palace of the Valerii Aradii, near S. Erasmo, on the Cælian, the most successful ever made in Rome. [102] _La bolla di Maria, moglie di Onorio._ Milan, 1819. [103] _Dissertazione su d' una antica argenteria, letta nell' accademia archeologica il dì 7 gennaio_, 1811. CHAPTER V. PAPAL TOMBS. Portraits of the early Popes.--Those of SS. Peter and Paul.--The tombs of the Popes.--Their interest for the student.--The tomb of Cornelius Martyr.--Inscriptions and other monuments found in his crypt.--The two Cornelii, pagan and Christian.--The pontifical crypt in the Cemetery of Callixtus.--The tomb of Gregory the Great.--S. Peter's as a burial-place for the Popes.--Gregory's several resting-places.--The stress of Rome in his time.--The legend of the angel.--Gregory's good works.--His house.--The tomb of the Saxon Ceadwalla.--That of Benedict VII.--The turbulent times in which he lived.--The Crescenzi.--The church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.--Pope Sylvester II.--The tradition about his death and tomb.--The vicissitudes of the Lateran basilica.--The Vassalletti.--Study of the antique by mediæval artists.--The stone-cutter's shop on the site of the Banca Nazionale.--The tomb of Innocent VIII.--The story of the holy lance.--The tomb of Paul III.--His services to art.--The tomb of Clement XIII.--Bracci and Canova.--The Jesuits in Clement's time.