ocr: Pompeii by A m edeo Maiuri The eruption surprised Pompeii on a warm August day A.D.79.The people of the town were not unaware that Vesuvius was a volcano, but it had been quiescent from time immemorial, and its slopes were covered with villas and vineyards. Although sections ofthe city still lay in ruins from a local earthquake that had shaken the region 17 years before, no one had taken that disturbance as a warning of the disaster to Originally published: April 1958 contents
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