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[48] Seneca, exposing the luxury of the Romans with regard to their baths, says, Pauper sibi videtur ac sordidus, nisi parietes magnis ac pretiosis orbibus refulserint—nisi vitro absconditur camera.—Ep. 86.

[49] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxxvi. c. 22. §. 45.

[50] Nat. Hist. lib. xxxvi. c. 22. §. 45.

[51] Vid. Salmasius in a passage to be produced hereafter.

[52] Hist. de l’Acad. des Inscrip. tom. I.

[53] Montfauc. Antiq. vol. III. part i. lib. iii. c. 4. Lipsius in loc. &c.

[54] Quædam nostrâ demum prodiisse memoriâ scimus; ut speculariorum usum, perlucente testâ, clarum transmittentium lumen. Sen. ep. 90.

[55] Quod fenestris obducebatur ad translucendum, ac lucem admittendam specular vetens Latini vocârunt. Idque ex speculari lapide, quí est φεγγιτης, aut ex vitro fiebat, aut aliâ translucidâ materiâ. Nam specular dictum, non quod ex speculari lapide factum esset, sed quod visum transmitteret, ac per id speculari liceret. Salm. Exerc. Plin. in Solin. tom. II. p. 771.

[56] Villa’s of the Anc. illustrated, p. iv.

[57] One of Pliny’s cautions for preserving apples is—Austros specularibus arcere. Nat. Hist. lib. xv. c. 16.