Yesterday this room was not even intended for my use, thus the hanging must have been put up between our arrival and this morning.

And how many other beautiful things I see around me! The whole place looks habitable, and the eye finds an abundance of objects on which it can rest with pleasure." "Have you examined that magnificent cushion ?" asked Antinous; "and the bronze figures, there in the corner, look to me far from bad." "They are admirable works," said Hadrian.

"Still, I would do without them with pleasure rather than miss this window.

Which is the bluer, the sky or the sea?
And what a delicious spring breeze fans us here, in the middle of December.

Which are the more delightful to contemplate, the innumerable ships in the harbor, which communicate between this flowery land and other countries, and bless it with wealth, or the buildings which attract the eye in whichever direction it turns.