tree, has thought proper to quote him fre- 

 quently j mentioning particularly his remarks 

 on Egyptian paper*; and alfo on that kind 

 of wood, of which the ftatue of Diana at 

 Ephefus was made -f*. With the Lycian-plane 

 Licinius was exceedingly pleafed; and often 

 enjoyed the company of his friends under it's 

 fhade. It was great luxury, he would fay, to 

 dine in it's trunk on a fultry fummer-day; 

 and to hear a heavy fhower of rain defcending 

 through the feveral flages of it's leaves. As 

 a naturalift, he left it on record, that himfelf 

 and eighteen other perfons, dined commodi- 

 oufly around the benches in the body of it. 



Caligula had a tree of the fame kind at 

 his villa near Velitrse. But Caligula's tree 

 appears to have been more complex, than 

 the Lycian-plane. It had not only a hollow 

 cave in it's trunk, which was capable of 

 holding fifteen perfons at dinner with a pro- 

 per fuit of the emperor's attendants: but, 



* Lib. xiii. c. 13. f Lib. xvi. c. 40. 



if 



