[3051] See Chapter [25] of this Book.
[3053] The largest opal known is in the Imperial cabinet at Vienna. It is the size of a man’s fist, and weighs 17 ounces, but is full of fissures.
[3054] See Carm. 53 of the Poems of Catullus.
[3055] A.U.C. 788.
[3056] See B. viii. c. 47. He alludes to the story of the Beaver.
[3057] See B. xxii. c. 29.
[3058] This is the case with common opal, as distinguished from precious opal.
[3059] “Lovely youth.”
[3060] Said ironically. There is a somewhat similar remark in B. xxxiii. c. [12].