Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 386
III. i.13 f. : Catullus, i. 1. 407. Stilus.Bronze from Orvieto. The stilus (o-tvXo?) was used for writing on waxtablets. This example has a handle in the shapeof a boy carrying a stilus in his right hand, and atablet in his left. Cp. Hor. Sat. i. 6. 74 : Laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto.In… … The reader holds an open parchment roll; a manuscript-case and a bundle of rolls are at his feet. He is surroundedby his friends, to whom he recites his work. Cp. Juvenal,Sat. i. 1 ff. 409. Greek lyre. Silver coin (slater) of the island of Calymna, near Rhodes. Sixthcentury b.c. In the British…
Classical antiquities
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