Note 139 — VIII ROME TO LORETO
W. G. (William George) Waters translation
L’Angeloni, in his
Storia di Terni
(Pisa, 1878), describes a figure of Neptune found in some excavations near Lago Velino with the following inscription:—
Neptuno Sacrum L. Valerius Nigri Lib. Menander Portitor Ocrisiva.
He also gives the inscription mentioned by Montaigne:—
A. Pompejo A. F. Clu. Q. Patrono Municipi Interamnat. Nahartis quod ejus Opera universum Municipium ex summis Periculis et Difficultatibus expeditum et conservatum est ex Testamento L. Licini T. F. Statua statuta est.