[34] On the almanacs (_Notitia, Curiosum_), containing catalogues and statistics of Roman buildings in the fourth century, see Mommsen: _Chronograph von 354_, etc., in the _Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften_, vols. ii. 549; iii. 269; viii. 694.--Preller: _Die Regionen der Stadt Rom_. Jena: Hochhausen, 1846.--Jordan: _Topographie der Stadt Rom_. Berlin: Weidmann, ii., pp. 1 & 178.--Richter: _Topographie der Stadt Rom_, 1889, p. 5; id.: _Hermes_, xx., p. 91.--De Rossi: _Piante iconografiche e prospettiche di Roma anteriori al sec. XVI_. Roma: Salviucci, 1879.--Guido: _Il testo siriaco della descrizione di Roma_, etc., in the _Bullettino Comunale_, 1884, p. 218; and 1891, p. 61.--Lanciani: _Ricerche sulle XIV regioni urbane_; in the _Bullettino comunale_, 1890, p. 115. [35] _Inscript_. 139, i. [36] The fac-simile here presented is from the _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, vi. 820. [37] The sale of skins of victims sacrificed at Athens in the year 334 B. C., in state sacrifices only, brought a revenue of 5,500 drachmas. [38] See Henzen, _Bullettino dell' Instituto_, 1863, p. 58.--Mommsen: _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, vol. i. no. 1503. [39] See Cicero: _De Divinatione_, ii. 59, 123.--Preller: _Die Regionen_, p. 133.--Nibby: _Roma Ant._, ii. p. 334.--Beckner: _Topogr._, p. 539.--Cavedoni: _Bull. dell' Inst._ 1856, p. 102.--Visconti: _Bullettino Comunale_, 1887, p. 154, 156.--Middleton: _The Remains of Ancient Rome_, ed. 1892, vol. ii. p. 233. [40] Concerning this celebrated monument, see Tambroni and Poletti: _Giornale arcadico_, vol. xviii., 1823, p. 371-400.--Gell: _Rome and its Vicinity_, i. p. 219.--Klausen: _Æneas_, ii. p. 1083.--Canina: _Via Appia_, i. p. 209-232.--Mommsen: _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_, vol. i. p. 207, no. 807. [41] Pliny, _N. H._, x. 29, 41. [42] A copy of this celebrated picture, dating from the second century B. C., has been found in a tomb on the Esquiline. It was published in facsimile and illustrated by Visconti in the _Bullettino Comunale_, 1889, p. 340, tav. xi.-xii. [43] See the _Annali dell' Instituto_, 1854, p. 28. [44] The convent and its garden occupy the sites of the house of Augustus, the temples of Vesta and Apollo, the Greek and Latin libraries, and the Portico of the Danaids, described in _Ancient Rome_, ch. v., p. 109. The estate has been owned successively by the Mattei, Spada, and Ronconi families, and by Charles Mills. Its finest ornament is a portico built by the Matteis in the sixteenth century from the designs of Raffaellino del Colle. This pupil of Raphael was also the painter of the exquisite frescoes representing Venus and Cupid, Jupiter and Antiope, Hermaphrodite and Salmace, and other subjects engraved by Marcantonio and Agostino Veneziano. These frescoes, greatly injured by age and neglect, were restored in 1824, by Camuccini, at the expense of Mr. Charles Mills.