eir veins and markings, which were like a
tiger's skin, or peacock's tail (xiii. 91. sqq.) Some copies read
_cedri_ for citri; and it has been suggested that the cypress is
really meant, the roots and knots of which are large and veined;
whereas the citron is never used for cabinet work, and is neither
veined nor knotted.

[12] About $161,000.

[13] The common furniture of a triclinium was three couches, placed on
three sides of a square table, each containing three persons, in
accordance with the favorite maxim, that a party should not consist of
more than the Muses nor of fewer than the Graces, not more than nine
nor less than three. Where such numbers were entertained, couches must
have been placed along the sides of long tables.

[14] Plin. Ep. lib. ii. 17. We have very much shortened the original,
leaving out the description of, at least, one upper floor, and other
particulars which did not appear necessary to the illustration of our
subject.

[15] Vitruvius, vi. 8.

[16] It was made of the entrails of fish macerated in brine. That made
from the fish called scomber was the best. This word is sometimes
translated a herring, but the best authorities render it a mackerel.
It was caught, according to Pliny, in the Straits of Gibraltar,
entering from the ocean, and was used for no purpose but to make
garum. The best was called garum sociorum, a term of which we have
seen no satisfactory explanation, and sold for 1,000 sesterces for two
congii, about $20 a gallon. An inferior kind, made from the anchovy
(aphya), was called alec, a name also given to the dregs of garum. "No
liquid, except unguents," Pliny says, "fetched a higher price."--Hist.
Nat. xxxi. 43.

[17]

"Hence, seek the sty--there wallow with thy friends."
She spake. I drawing from beside my thigh
My faulchion keen, with death-denouncing looks
Rushed on her; she with a shrill scream of fear
Ran under my raised arm, seized fast my knees,
And in winged accents plaintive thus began:
"Say, who art thou," etc.--Cowper's Odyss. x. 320.

[18]

She sat before him, clasped with her left hand
His knees; her right beneath his chin she placed,
And thus the king, Saturnian Jove, implored.--Il. i. 500.

[Illustration: FIRST WALLS DISCOVERED IN POMPEII.]

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AMUSEMENTS.

The amphitheatre stands some hundred yards from the theatres, in the
south-eastern angle of the walls of the