Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 307
parchment orvellum. Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa^ orcapsula^ in which the manuscripts were placed vertically, thetitles at the top. Catul-lus excuses himself toManlius for not havingsent him the requiredverses, because he hadwith him only one boxof his books. It is evi-… … LITERATURE. 285 are considered to have been such. Beside the box are twotablets, which, from the money-bag and coins scattered about,had probably been used in reckoning accounts. No perfect papyri, but only fragments, have been found atPompeii. At Herculaneum, up to the year 1825, 1,756 had…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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