BANDUSLE FONS, a fountain in Apulia, about six miles south of Venusia, celebrated by Horace, Carm. iii. 13. Some, however, suppose that this fountain is the modern Fonte Bello, near the poet's Sabine farm in the valley of Licenza. In the older editions of Horace it is called Blandusia, but in the best MS. the name is written as above. (See Decouverte de la Maison d'Horace, by the Abbé Chaupy, vol. iii.; Obbarius's Horace, Jena, 1848.)
BANDUSLE FONS
article · 438 chars · lineage ↗ · page image at NLS ↗