"The Savelli family were in possession of the fortress in 1312, and the German army of Henry VII. marched from Rome, attacked, took, and burnt it, but were unable to make themselves, by force, masters of the citadel--that is, the tomb." The "fence of stone" refers to the quadrangular basement of concrete, on which the circular tower rests. The tower was originally coated with marble, which was stripped off for the purpose of making lime. The work of destruction is said to have been carried out during the interval between Poggio's (see his _De Fort. Var._, ap. Sall., _Nov. Thes. Ant. Rom._, 1735, i. 501, _sq._) first and second visits to Rome. (See Hobhouse's _Hist. Illust._, pp. 202, 203; _Handbook for Rome_, p. 360.)] [ob] {403} _So massily begirt--what lay?_----.--[MS. M.] [oc] {404} _Love from her duties--still a conqueress in the war_.--[MS. M. erased.] [481] Ον οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος [On oi(theoi\ philou~sin a)pothnê/skei ne/os] Τὸ γὰρ θανεῖν οὐχ αἰσχρὸν, ἀλλ' αἰσχρῶς θανεῖν [To\ ga\r thanei~n ou)ch ai)schro\n, a)ll' ai)schrô~s thanei~n]. _Gnomici Poetæ Græci_, R. F. P. Brunck, 1784, p. 231. [482] {405} ["It is more likely to have been the pride than the love of Crassus which raised so superb a memorial to a wife whose name is not mentioned in history, unless she be supposed to be that lady whose intimacy with Dolabella was so offensive to Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, or she who was divorced by Lentulus Spinther, or she, perhaps the same person, from whose ear the son of Æsopus transferred a precious jewel to enrich his daughter (_vide_ Hor., _Sat._, ii. 3. 239)" (_Hist. Illust._, p. 200). The wealth of Crassus was proverbial, as his _agnomen_, Dives, testifies (Plut., _Crassus_, ii., iii., Lipsiæ, 1813, v. 156, _sq._).] [od] {406} _Till I had called forth even from the mind_.--[MS. M. erased.] ----_with heated mind_.--[MS. M.] [oe] _I have no home_----.--[MS. M.] [483] {407} [Compare Rogers's _Italy:_ "Rome" (_Poems_, 1852), ii. 169-- "Or climb the Palatine, * * * * * Long while the seat of Rome, hereafter found Less than enough (so monstrous was the brood Engendered there, so Titan-like) to lodge One in his madness; and inscribe my name-- My name and date, on some broad aloe-leaf That shoots and spreads within those very walls Where Virgil read aloud his tale divine, When his voice faltered and a mother wept Tears of delight!"[§] And compare Shelley's _Poetical Works_, 1895, iii. 276-- "Rome has fallen; ye see it lying Heaped in undistinguished ruin: Nature is alone undying."] [§] [At the words _Tu Marcellus eris, etc_. (_vide_ Tib. Cl. Donatus, _Life of Virgil_ (Virg., _Opera_), Leeuwarden, 1627, vol. i.).] [of] ----_wherein have creeped_ _The Reptiles which_.---- or, _Scorpion and blindworm_----.--[MS. M. erased.]