tfthe Ancients reJpEling Glafs'. 115 



Apuleius mentions the manufa£tory 



ApSeiis^/*' °^ g'^^^ ^"P^ '" '^'s ^'"^e* as highly 

 worked and carved in various ways, 

 and of great value. 



Alexander Aphrodifienfis, a Greek 

 A. D. 214. writer, and a commentator on Arif- 



ApSifi- fo^l^' h^s ^'^^^'■^•l remarks on glafs* 

 enfis. relative both to its brittlenefs, efpe- 



cially on change of temperature, and 

 its tranfparency. 



The manufafturers of glafs feem to have been 

 credled into a kind of Company at Rome, and to 

 have had a ftreet alTigned them, v/hich was in the 

 firft region or divifion of the city, near the Porta 

 Capena. I 



A tax was laid upon them by 

 A.D. 220. Alexander Severus, J which fubfiHed 



in the time of Aurelian, || and proba- 

 bly long after. 



The firfl author that I find, who makes men- 

 tion of glafs in windows, though there is no 



• A» tfAoi %t ru! y^njAUii ^i^jxav c-^t^^a. t»»o{ iu.BXt!^ovto(; er,y:vt>- 

 T«t. Alex. Aphrod. probl. f. 



ilc-irtp h ^'l^ov ej/.fciniu ro ivixn^ei Toi> x^u/AKTor. AleX. 

 Aphrod, ex. Steph. Thefaur. Grsc. vox Y»Aof. 



t Sextus Rufus in defcript. urb. Roma;. 



t JEli'i Lampr. Alex. Severus. 



II Vopifcus Aurelianus. 



I 2 doubt 



