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Show :-x-:-x-:-?:':z':-x-:--:-x-:-r-:-x-:-X':-x-:-x-M-x-:-XvZ-:- xxzxx x xxx Old Reman Fountain Credited to Domitian from numerous small holes in a bronze -ieiio at the top in d Ml in a veil into i la;ge circular basin, lined through out will: marble. This fountain Is mentioned ,- the phibisophet Seneca in nne of Ids epi-Hps. when he complains com-plains of the noise which was made by a showman who blew his. trumpet lose to the fountain. Rome has the reputation of hein? the city which possesses the large! number of artistic and monuinenlai fountains, which all help to give he; a most attractive aspoct. Pan ccrta'n-ly ccrta'n-ly very few people in Rome, writes n correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, could teli you wind, is the oldest of all. and guides often miss pointing it out to the tourists ami other foreign visitors. At the font of the road leading to the Coliseum there lies the so-called Meta Sudaiis. a fountain whose name is probably derived from its conical shape, similar to the "inetae" of the circus. The font. tain is believed have been erected or embellished by the Kmperor Itomliian. and it was reproduced re-produced on the special modal struck on the occasion of the fi.nt.;il opi.t:its of the Coliseum. The water issued |