129. Sylla, in the language of a soldier, praised his
'peritia castrametandi '(Plin. Hist. Natur. xviii. 7).
Phaedrus, who makes its shady walks (laeta viidia) the scene
of an insipid fable (ii. 5), has thus de-scribed the
situation:-
Caesar Tiberius quum petens Neapolim,
In Misenensem villam venisset suam;
Quae monte summo posita Luculli manu
Prospectat Sictdum et despicit Tuscum mare.