In that year, however, Angelo Mai discovered in the Ambrosian library at Milan a palimpsest manuscript (and, later, some additional sheets of it in the Vatican), on which had been originally written some of Fronto's letters to his royal pupils and their replies.
A palimpsest containing fragments of various orations was recently destroyed by the fire at the Turin library.
The letters, together with the other fragments in the palimpsest, were published at Rome in 1823.
It is a palimpsest MS., and the upper writing (lives of saints), dated A.D.
As Hatoum struggles to rise, her limbs mark the sides of the container until they become a palimpsest of muddy traces.