X CONTENTS. 



CHAP. Pajfe 



41. Encaustic painting .. .. 282 



42. The colouring of tissues .. .. .. .. .. .. ib. 



43. The inventors of the art of modelling .. 283 



44. AVho was the first to mould figures in imitation of the features 



of living persons, or of statues . . . . . . . . 284 



45. The most famous modellers ib. 



46. Works in pottery 2SG 



47. Various kinds of earth. The Puteolan dust, and other earths of 



^^hich cements like stone are made . . . . . . . . 288 



48. Form acean walls . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 289 



49. Walls of brick. The method of making bricks . . . . 290 



50. Sulphur, and the several varieties of it : fourteen remedies . . *291 



51. Bitumen, and the several varieties of it : twenty-seven remedies 293 



52. Alumen, and the several varieties of it : thirty-eight remedies 294 



53. Samian earth : three remedies . . . . . . . . . . 298 



54. The various kinds of eretria . . . . . . . . . . ib. 



55. The method of washing earths for medicinal purposes. . . . ib. 



56. Chian earth : three remedies. Selinusian earth : three reme- 



dies. iPnigitis: nine remedies. Ampelitis ; four remedies 299 



57. Cretaceous earths used for scouring cloth. Cimolian earth : 



nine remedies. Sardinian earth. Umbrian earth. Saxum ib. 



58. Argentaria. Names of freedmen who have either risen to 



power themselves, or have belonged to men of influence . . 301 



59. The earth of Galata ; of Clypea ; of the Baleares ; and of Ebusus 303 



BOOK XXXVI. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STONES. 



1. Luxury displayed in the use of various kinds of luarble . . 305 



2. Who was the first to employ marble in public buildings . . 306 



3. Who was the first to erect colnrans of foreign marble at Eome 307 



4. The first artists who excelled in the sculpture of marble, and. 



the various periods at which they fiourished. The Mauso- 

 leum in Caria. The most celebrated sculptors and works in. 

 marble, two hundred and twenty-five in number . . . . 308 



5. At what period marble was first used in buildings . . _. . 323 

 G. Who were the first to cut marble into slabs, and at what period 324 



7. Who was the first to encrust the walls of houses at Eome with 



marble • ib. 



8. At what period the various kinds of marble came into use at 



Rome 325 



9. The method of cutting marble into slabs. The sand used in 



cutting marble . . . . . . . . . • • • ib. 



10. Stone of Naxos. Stone of Armenia .. .. .. .. 327 



11. The marbles of Alexandria .. .. .. .. .. ib. 



12. Onyx and alabastrites : six remedies .. .. .. .. 329 



