Subterraneæ Romæ!

Obscura licet Urbis Cœmetria

Totius patens Orbis Theatrium!

Supplex Loci Sanetitatem venerare,

Et post hac sub luto aurum

Coelum sub coeno

Sub Româ Romam quærito!"

Roma Subterranea, 1651, tom. i. p. 625.

(Inscription abridged.)

Stay, wayfarer—behold