THE TOMBS OF MÆCENAS AND HORACE.

The first consists of a sepulchre of rubble work in a circular form,

now surmounted by a cottage; the second, near it, is a stable, with

two columns in front. Horace was buried near Mæcenas. Suetonius tells

us: "He was interred, and lies buried on the skirts of the Esquiline

Hill, near the Tomb of Mæcenas."

These tombs were ruthlessly destroyed by the municipality in 1884.

_From the square the road leads to some remains of_

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