Note 170 — Chapter X
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Porcellio, in his Feltria, Vat. Urb. MSS. 710, describes his emotions in these rough lines:—
"Ipse domum rediens primum vacua atria lustrat, Mox semota petens, clausis de more fenestris, In luctu et lacrymis, nigraque in veste sedebat. Pullati incedunt comites, famulique minores, Ac nigra sunt mensi mantilia, nigra supellex, Et thalamum infaustum velamina nigra tegebant."