containing busts of great men arranged round the room on shelves, many
of doubtful identity. The most important are,--
1. Virgil. 4, 5, 6. Socrates. 7, 35. Alcibiades. 10. Seneca. 16.
Marcus Agrippa. 20. Marcus Aurelius. 21. Diogenes. 22. Archimedes. 27.
Pythagoras. 28. Alexander the Great. 30. Aristophanes. 31, 32.
Demosthenes. 33, 34. Sophocles. 37. Hippocrates. 41 to 43. Euripides.
44 to 47. Homer. 48. Domitius Corbulo. 49. Scipio Africanus the elder.
Pompey the Great. 60. Thucydides. 63. Double Hermes of Epicurus and
Metrodorus, friends and philosophers. 72. Julian. 74. Ahenobarbus,
father of Nero. 75. Cicero (?). 76. Terence.
The walls are adorned with bas-reliefs. The seated figure in the
centre of the room is supposed to be Marcus Claudius Marcellus, the
great general of the republic, who died B.C. 208.