Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 322
f the tables andcouches are very beautiful, as well as the splendidfestal dresses of the guests with their crowns ofivy and olive, their rich necklaces and bracelets. MURAL PAINTING 299 Ointments and perfumes also, so essential to theluxurious habits of the ancients, are not wantingto this banquet.… … Dancing Figures, Grotta del Triclinio, Tarquinia feast a tame leopard, a partridge, and a cock, whichare assiduously picking up the crumbs of goodthings. Above the couches hang crowns or chap-lets with which the guests at the end of the enter-tainment used to adorn themselves. . . . Thefuneral…
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