Gallus ; Or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus: With Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans |
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Page 374 - ... were found in the ruins. This is an evident proof, that glass windows were in use among the ancients. The learned seem to have been generally mistaken on the subject of glass making among the ancients.
Page 337 - Gr. torn. iii. [Son. de lieu, vii. 6, calls the publisher emptor, which shows that he acquired the copyright by purchase.] Some of the copies, however, found their way, in the shape of waste paper, into the taverns, and to the vendors of salt-fish, from whom the school-children obtained what they needed. See Mart. iv. 86, iii. 2, xiii. 1, and particularly vi. 60, 7 : Quam multi tineas pascunt blattasque diserti, Et redimunt soli carmina docta coqui.
Page 19 - ... Corinthian saloon stood vessels of precious Corinthian bronze, whose worn handles and peculiar smell sufficiently announced their antiquity ; together with two large golden drinking cups, on one of which were engraved scenes from the Iliad, on the other from the Odyssey. Besides these there were smaller beakers and bowls composed of precious stones, either made of one piece only and adorned with reliefs, or of several cameos united by settings of gold. Genuine Murrhina vases also, — even at...
Page 29 - Immediately adjoining this apartment was the library, full of the most precious treasures acquired by Gallus, chiefly in Alexandria. There, in presses of cedar-wood, placed round the walls, lay the rolls, partly of parchment, and partly of the finest Egyptian papyrus, each supplied with a label, on which was seen, in bright red letters, the name of the author and title of the book. Above these again were ranged the busts, in bronze or marble, of the...
Page 188 - Minervae, quae fieri pugna prima cruenta solet. 15 protinus excolimur teneri, curaque parentis imus ad insignes Urbis ab arte viros. frater ad eloquium viridi tendebat ab aevo, fortia verbosi natus ad arma fori. at mihi iam puero caelestia sacra placebant, 20 inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus. saepe pater dixit „studium quid inutile temptas? Maeonides nullas ipse reliquit opes.
Page 368 - Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations since 1819.
Page 336 - Erras, meorum fur avare librorum, Fieri poetam posse qui putas tanti, Scriptura quanti constet et tomus vilis. Non sex paratur aut decem sophos nummis. Secreta quaere carmina et rudes curas, Quas novit unus scrinioque signatas Custodit ipse virginis pater chartae, Quae trita duro non inhorruit mento. Mutare dominum non potest liber notus. Sed pumicata fronte si quis est nondum Nec umbilicis cultus atque membrana, Mercare.
Page 114 - Friends,' said Lentulus, smiling, • they are pea-hen's eggs, which have been put under the hen ; my only fear is that she may have sat too long upon them, but let us try them.
Page 20 - The Egyptian saloon, however, surpassed the rest in magnificence. Every silver or golden vessel which it contained was made by the most celebrated toreutoe, and possessed a higher value from the beauty of its workmanship than even from the costliness of its material. . . No less worthy of admiration were the ingenious works in glass, from Alexandria ; beakers and saucers of superb moulding, and imitating so naturally the tints of the amethyst and ruby, as completely to deceive the beholder; others...
Page 474 - Such was the hexaclinon in Mart. ii. 60, 9, and the heptaclinon, x. 48 : Stella, Nepos, Cani, Cerealis, Flacce, venitis ? Septem sigma capit ; sex sumus : adde Lupum.