TRIUMPH OF DISCOVERY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 7

TRIUMPH OF DISCOVERY

GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND. OAT 13 ON MOUNT OUMAE. RESIDENCE OF ANCIENT PROPHETESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegi-apli.—Copyright.) (Times Cable.) Received October 13, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 12.

The Times’s Rome correspondent describes one of the greatest archaeological triumphs of recent years in whi'n Professor Maiuri, Superintendent of Antiquities, discovered the west side of the Mount Cumae cave wherein Sibyl of Cumae delivered the oracles and predicted the foundation of Rome to Aeneas.

Professor Maiuri, while exploring: a wine cellar, discovered the corrjuor exactly described lay Virgil in the sixth book of “Aeneid,” ending in the vaulted chamber wherein Sibyl dwelt.

Virgil (or Vergil) who was born in 70 B.C. if regarded as tho greatest_ of Jtho Latin poots. His Aeneid is an epic poem rooounting tho adventures of Aeneas after tho fall of Troy. Aeneas was a Trojan princo, the fabled son of Anchises and Venus. On tho destruction. °f Troy ho flod from the ruins. He finally settled in Italy and, according to tradition, was tho ancestor of Romulus and Remus. Sibyl of Cumao is said to have written tho Sibyllino Books—a collection of proprecies written in Greek verse, including a prophecy of tho founding of Rome. It is related that in a cavo on Mount Cumao, Southern Italy, whero sho resided, Sibyl related these prophecies, or oracles to Aeneas.