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A Brief Outline of the History of Libraries (Classic Reprint) Justus Lipsius No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 107 - 107 tues of those of whom no portraits have been preserved." He calls the custom a new one, meaning that it originated with Pollio. He says also that these statues of the dead were for the most part made of metal. I would add that they were also made of
Page 106 - that they place in libraries, not only the statues in gold, silver, or bronze of those whose immortal souls may be said to be speaking there through their books, but also the statues of those whose books are not there; and even imaginary
Page 99 - that the cases were numbered. Vopiscus so indicates when he says,"The Ulpian library has the elephant book in the sixth case." Whether by "elephant" he means made of ivory or of the skin of an elephant, I cannot say. The old scholiast in commenting on this phrase, from Juvenal, "Hie libros dabit et forulos" (This one will furnish you with books and
Page 96 - decoration, when he says, in his book on Consolation, "The walls were decorated with ivory and glass." OF LIBRARIES 97 Does he mean the walls of the room itself ?It would seem
Page 73 - a portico, a temple, because in it, as Pliny says, was an altar to Juno, and certain beautiful statues. Still another library was found74A BRIEF HISTORY ed by this same Augustus, the Palatine,so called because it was in the royal palace itself. Suetonius says, "He built the temple of Apollo in that part of his house on the Palatine Hill which had been struck by lightning, and was thereby, as the priests interpreted the
Page 115 - thus making sport of the philosophers maintained there, as if they were so many rare birds." Athenaeus, we see, calls them philosophers; but Strabo uses the more general
Page 117 - those also who should be maintained at public expense in the Museum." Again, speaking of Polemon, he says," Hadrian made him a member of the Museum, where he lived at public expense." Let me add that, though I have not so indicated in my translation, Philostratus uses in the phrase I have quoted a word meaning " circle," from which it would seem that members were admitted in a
Page 104 - others, and at the same time feast your eyes upon the counterfeit presentment of each one. Again I say, a most beautiful custom, and
Page 97 - would seem so,for the bookcases or shelves were not placed against the walls, in which case the ornamentation of the latter would not have been seen, but were set out in the room, just as they are in most public libraries to-day. Glass cut in squares, circles, ovals, and rhomboids was used like marble tiles, to ornament the walls, though oftener the arches and the ceilings. Pliny says in