"was a grotto consecrated to Pan, the most ancient and the most
honoured of all the Arcadian gods. It was surrounded by a wood, and is
contiguous to the Palatine buildings, and is to be seen in the way
that leads to the Circus. Near it stands a temple in which a statue is
placed representing a wolf suckling two children,--they are in brass,
and of ancient workmanship" (Dionysius, i. 76). This grotto, with the
water still flowing out of the rock, still exists under the street at
the corner of the Via de Cerchi, but it is not at present accessible.
It was discovered by Mr. J. H. Parker, C.B., in 1869; and he found
remains of the work of Augustus, who says, in the "Mon. Ancyr.,"
"_Lupercal ... feci._" We have been into it, and it exactly answers
the description of Dionysius.
_From the church we follow the_ VIA DI S. TEODORO. _A decline on the
left leads to_