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 44
resses of Gallic wool, * These citrese mensa? have g-iven rise to considerable discussion. Pliny says thatthey were made of the roots or knots of the wood, and esteemed on account of their veinsand markings, which were like a tigers skin, or peacocks tail (xiii. 91, sqq ) Somecopies read cedri for… … TUICLINIUM. 34 THE TRICLINIUM. dyed purple ; the valuable cushions, stuffed with feathers, werecovered with stuffs woven and embroidered with silk mixed withthreads of gold. Chrysippus told us that they were made atBabylon, and had cost four millions of sesterces.* The mosaic pavement, by a…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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