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 40
Gallic wool, * riicse citre.t! nicnsiv have pivcn rise to considerable di.scus>ion. Pliny sa3s thatthey were made of the roots or knots of tiic wood, and esteemed on account of their veinsand markinffs. which were like a timers skin, or peacocks tail (xiii. 91. sqq.) Somecopies read cedri for… … T.aCLINIU.M. 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 miosaic pavement, by a…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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