The particulars of the eruption are treated at length in the works on
Vesuvius cited in the note to Chap. I.
_Vesuvius before the eruption_ [p. 19]: Strabo, V. VIII. (p. 247);
Diod. Sic. IV. XXI. 5; Vitr. II. VI. 2, 3; Mart. Epigr. IV. XLIV;
PALMIERI, Del Vesuvio dei tempi di Spartaco e di Strabone e del
precipuo cangiamento avvenuto nell' anno 79 dell' era volgare, Pompei
e la regione sotterrate dal Vesuvio nell' anno LXXIX, pp. 91-94; see
also LOBLEY, Mount Vesuvius, pp. 95-98 and pl. 8. _Representation of
Vesuvius in a Pompeian wall painting_ (discovered in 1879): Not. d.
scavi, 1879, p. 285; reproduction, Not. d. scavi, 1880, pl. VII., with
a geological analysis by Palmieri, pp. 233-234; reproduced also by DE
MARCHI, Il culto privato di Roma antica, vol. 1 (Milan, 1896), pl. 5
(p. 100).
_The earthquake of 63 A.D._ [p. 19]: Tac. Ann. XV. XXII (erroneously
assigned to 62); Sen. N. Q. VI. I. 1-15, XXVI. 5, XXVII. 1; cf. also
the dedicatory inscription of the temple of Isis [p. 170].
_Date of the eruption_ [p. 19]: MAU, Del mese e del giorno dell'
eruzione, Bull. dell' Inst. 1880, pp. 92-96; Not. d. scavi, 1889, pp.
407-410; Roem. Mitth., vol. 5 (1890), pp. 282-283.
_Ancient sources of our knowledge of the eruption_ [pp. 19-20]: Plin.
Ep. VI. XVI, XX; Dio Cass. LXVI. XXI-XXIII; incidental references, M.
Aurel. Anton. IV. XLVIII; Euseb. Chron. ad an. Abr. 2095; Plut. De
sera numinis vindicta, XXII. p. 566 E, De Pythiae oraculis, IX. p. 398
E; Tertullian, Apologet. XL, De pallio, II.
_Covering of Herculaneum_ [p. 21]; RUGGIERO, Della eruzione del
Vesuvio nell' anno LXXIX (see note to Chap. I.), pp. 21-22.
_Excavations at Stabiae_ [p. 21]: see note to Chap. IV.
_Commission sent by Titus_ [p. 23]: Suet. Div. Tit. 8.