X CONTEXTS. 



CHAP. 



41. Encaustic painting ,. 



42. T he colouring of tissues.. .. .. .. 



43. The inventors of the art of modelling .. 



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



of living persons, or of statues 



45. The most famous modellers 



4'j. Works in pottery. . . . . . . . i>G 



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



which cements like stone are made .. ,. ; .'; .. 288 



48. Formacean walls.. .. .. .. .. ' . . .. liS'.i 



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



50. Sulphur, and the several varieties of it : fourteen remedies . . V91 



51. Uiturmn, and the several varieties of it : twenty-seven remedies 21K> 



52. Alumon, and the several varieties of it : thirty-eight remedies l?l4 



53. Samian earth: tliree remedies .. .. .. .. .. 29S 



51. The various kinds of eretria .. .. .. .. .. ift. 



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

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

 dies. Pnigitis: nine remedies. Amprlitis : four remedies 299 



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



nine remedies. Sardinian earth. Umbrian earth. Saxum i/*. 



58. Arger.taria. Names of freedmui who have c-ithrr ri.Mn to 



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



59. The earth of Galatu ; of Clypea ; of the Bau ires ; and of Kbusus 303 



BOOK XXXVI. 



THE NATURAL 1IISTOKY OP STONKS. 



1. Luxury displayed in the use of various kinds <>f marble .. 305 



2. Who was the first to employ marble in public buildings .. 300 



3. Wbo was the first to erect columns of foreign marble ut Homo 3<*7 



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



the various periods at which they flourished. The Mauso- 

 leum in Caria. The most celebrated sculptors and works in 

 marble, two hundred and twenty-live in number .. .. 30s 



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 Koine with 



marble .. .. .. # 



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



Home .. .- 32"> 



!>. The method of cutting marble into slabs. The sand used in 



cutting marble .. .. .. ... '^ 



10. Stone of Xaxos. Stone of Armenia .. .. ,, 327 



11. The marbles of Alexandria .. .. ., */ f/ '- 



12. Oiivx and alubastrites : six remedies .. .. 329 



