[918] See B. v. c. 1.
[919] Generally supposed to be the Thuya articulata of Desfontaines, the Cedrus Atlantica of other botanists.
[920] This rage for fine tables made of the citrus is alluded to, among others, by Martial and Petronius Arbiter. See also Lucan, A. ix. B. 426, et seq.
[921] It is a rather curious fact that it is in Cicero’s works that we find the earliest mention made of citrus tables, 2nd Oration ag. Verres, s. 4:—“You deprived Q. Lutatius Diodorus of Lilybæum of a citrus table of remarkable age and beauty.”
[922] Somewhere about £9000.
[923] This is considered nothing remarkable at the present day, such is the skill displayed by our cabinet-makers.
[924] Called “Nomiana.”
[925] Tuber.
[926] The European Cyprus, the Cupressus sempervirens of Linnæus.
[927] These veins were nothing in reality but the lines of the layers or strata lignea, running perpendicularly in the trunk, and the number of which denotes the age of the tree.