[This translation is followed by the original article in English,
Iste traduction es sequinte per le articulo original in anglese]

Le Villa de Ovid Dicite a Esser Trovate in Roma
Venerdi, Novembre 3, 2000
per GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
scriptor del AP
[traducite per Jay Dobkin]

  Roma (AP) - Archeologos mentinte un sito de construction al nord
de "downtown" Roma ha trovate que illes crede era le villa del poeta
Latin Ovid, autor del famose discurso erotic "Le Arte de Amar."
  Jam discoperate son alcun muros, que pare haber essite un cocina,
e un mosaico virtualmente intacte que copera 10.5 metros quadrate
de un solo del cenaculo.
  Le mosaico ha le capite multicolor de un figura - probabilemente
un attendenta de Baccho, le deo de vino - al centro de un intricate
designo geometric in nigre e blanc. Su oculos mira pensivemente
de sub un laurea, memorante le linea per Ovid: "Vino prepara
cordes pro passion."
  "Le mosaico es le sol memoria que persistera del villa," Gaetano
Messineo, un del archeologos del citate participante in le excavation,
ha dicite venerdi.
  Le indicio al identitate del villa, ille ha dicite, es in litteras scripte
per Ovid in le prime seculo A.E.C. [Ante le Era Commun] quando
ille viveva in exilio. Le poeta, qui habeva mal de pais, scribeva
nostalgicamente de su villa dar super le fluvio Tibere ubi le itineres
Cassia e Flaminia converge - exactemente ubi le ruinas nunc son.
  "Illo es certemente le villa de Ovid--ille es le fonte autoratari," ha
dicite Messineo.
  Le ruinas era discoperate quando le archeologos mentiva le sito
de construction, ubi un complexo de edificios pro le agentia del
citate de collection de immunditias sera construite.
  "Si nos non habeva essite permittite a facer excavationes preventive,
illes haberea construite super illo sin un pensamento," ha dicite
Raffaella Tione, un altere archeologo in le excavation.
  Il non es probabile que alcun plus del villa sera discoperate; le area
ambiente es coperate per appartamentos e stratas. Ma le archeologos
spera que le mosaico, que es essinte restituite, persistera.
  Al fin, Tione ha burlate, haber le agentia de collection de immunditias
proxime pote esser bon. "Al minus, illo sera munde," illa ha dicite.


Ovid's Rome Villa Reportedly Found
Friday, November 03, 2000
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
Associated Press Writer

  ROME (AP) - Archaeologists surveying a construction site north
of downtown Rome have found what they believe was the villa of the
Latin poet Ovid, author of the famed erotic treatise "The Art of
Loving.''
  Uncovered so far are some walls, what seems to have been a
kitchen, and a virtually intact marble mosaic covering 60 square
feet of a dining room floor.
  The mosaic features the multicolored head of a figure - probably
an attendant to Bacchus, the god of wine - at the center of an
intricate geometric design in black and white. His eyes look
pensively out from under a laurel crown, recalling Ovid's line:
"Wine readies hearts for passion.''
  "The mosaic is the only memory that will remain of the villa,''
Gaetano Messineo, one of the city archaeologists involved the dig,
said Friday.
  The clue to the villa's identity, he said, is in letters Ovid
wrote in the first century B.C. when he was living in exile. The
homesick poet wrote nostalgically of his villa overlooking the
Tiber River where the Cassia and Flaminia roads converge - exactly
where the ruins now are.
  "It is certainly Ovid's villa - he is the authoritative
source,'' Messineo said.
  The ruins were uncovered as archaeologists surveyed the
construction site, where a complex of buildings for the city's
garbage collection agency will go up.
  "If we hadn't been allowed to do preventive digs, they would
have built over it without a thought,'' said Raffaella Tione,
another archaeologist on the dig.
  It is unlikely any more of the villa will be uncovered; the
surrounding area is covered by modern apartment buildings and
streets. But the archaeologists hope that the mosaic, which is
being restored, will be remain visible.
  In the end, Tione joked, having the garbage collection agency
nearby might be a good thing. "At least it'll be clean,'' she
said.