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 (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 297
es that it was made of parchment orvellum. Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa^ orcapsida^ 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… … LIBRARIES AND MONEY. 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…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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