Il avait vendu ses chevaux anglais pour continuer des fouilles à Misène, où il avait trouvé un buste de Tibère, jeune encore, qui avait pris rang parmi les plus beaux restes de l’antiquité.
He had sold his English thoroughbreds in order to continue his excavations at Miseno, where he had turned up a bust of Tiberius as a young man which had been classed among the finest relics of antiquity.