[520] Of this visit to Pompeii Sir W. Gell says--"Sir Walter viewed the
whole with a poet's eye, not that of an antiquarian, exclaiming
frequently, 'The city of the Dead!'"
He examined, however, with more interest the "splendid mosaic
representing a combat of the Greeks and the Persians."--_Life_, vol. x.
p. 159.
[521] The places are now known as Nocera Superiore and Nocera Inferiore.