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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)

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sses of Gallic wool,, * These citreae mensse have given rise to considerable discussion. Pliny says thatthey were made of the roots or knots nf the wood, and esteemed on account of their veinsand markings, which were like a tig^ers skin, or peacocks fail (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 the}^ were made atBabylon, and had cost four millions of sesterces.* The mosaic pavement, by a…

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