intended to be attached to a jar (in phialse eniblemate), repre- 

 sented Ulysses and Diomed carrying off the Palladium. It 

 weighed two ounces, and sold for 10,000 sesterces = 

 £80 14s. 7d. of our money. According to one ancient manu- 

 script of Pliny, it sold for double that amount.* Marcus 

 Curtius leaping into the gulph forms the subject of a beautiful 

 silver Emblem, in the possession of the writer. When the 

 arts of Greece were transplanted into Italy and Sicily, the 

 word Emblema became naturalised in the Latin tongue, though 

 not without some resistance on the part of the reigning prince 

 Tiberius. That emperor is reported by Suetonius t to have 

 found fault with the introduction of the word into a Decree of 

 the Senate, as being of foreign growth. Cicero, however, had 

 used it in his orations against Verres, where he accuses that 

 rapacious governor (amongst other crimes) of having com- 

 pelled the people of Haluntium to bring to him their vases, 

 from which he carefully abstracted the valuable Emblems and 

 inserted them upon his own golden vessels. Quintilian, soon 

 after this period, in enumerating the arts of oratory used by 

 the pleaders of his day, describes some of them as in the habit 

 of preparing and committing to memory certain highly finished 

 clauses, to be inserted (as occasion might arise) like Emblems 

 in the body of their orations. { 



" Such was the meaning of the term in the classical ages 

 of Greece and Rome ; nor was its signification altered until 

 some time after the revival of literature in the fifteenth 

 century. § 



" In our own country, Shakespear and Milton continued to 

 use it in its primitive sense, though in the time of the latter 



• See Valpy's edition. + Tiber. Ctesar Vita, e. 71. 



1 " Quidam scriptos eos (scilicet locos) memoriieque diligentudme man- 

 dates, in promptu habuerint, ut quoties esset occasio, extemporales eoruni dictiones, 

 his, velut Embleniatibus exornarentur." — Quint. Lib. 2, cap. 4. 



§ Vide Dufresue Ducange— " Glossarium media; et infim* Latinitatis " Ail. 

 Emblems —Cotgrave't Dictionary. — "Ortus Vouabulorum," -Vc. 



