Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 77
S. DEMETRIUS—SALONICA CH. iv] BYZANTINE MOSAIC 49 quarried and imported had been enormous. Pliny tellsus that M. Scaurus when yEdile, b.c. 58, had 360 columnsset up in his temporary theatre, which lasted barely asingle months The spendthrift Mamurra, whom Catullusand Horace ridicule, set the…