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Upon entering the vestibule of one of the disinterred houses of Pompeii the visitor starts at a large black dog, his chain attached to a spiked collar, in act apparently of fiercely springing upon him. It is a life-like mosaic worked into the pavement. Under it appears the words
CAVE CANEM.
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