NOTE1850
Inscription from Roma Subterranea
By F. T. J. B. (Brookthorpe)
If you deem the translation of this inscription, quoted in Lord Lindsay's fanciful but admirable *Sketches of the History of Christian Art*, worth a place among your Notes, it is very heartily at your service. "Sisto viator Tot ibi trophæa, quot ossa Quot martyres, tot triumphi. Antra quæ subis, multa quæ cernis marmora, Vel dum silent, Palam Romæ gloriam loquuntur. Audi quid Echo resonet Subterraneæ Romæ! Obscura licet Urbis Cœmetria Totius patens Orbis Theatrium! Supplex Loci Sanetitatem venerare, Et post hac sub luto aurum Coelum sub coeno Sub Româ Romam quærito!" *Roma Subterranea*, 1651,…
Topics: Christian Art, Inscriptions, Subterranean Rome
Locations: Rome