Chip. 02.] TERRACE-HOOF I'AVEMKSTS. 3/7 



1hey having all the appearance of being left there by accident. 

 There is a dove also, greatly admired, in the act of drinking, 

 and throwing tin; nhudow of its head upon the water ; whih? 

 other birds are to be seen sunning and pluming themselves, ou 

 the margin of a drinking-bowl. 



CHAP. 01. TI1K FlllST i'AVK.MKNTS IX USE AT TIOMK. 



The first pavements, in my opinion, were those now known 

 to us as barbaric and subtegulan 67 pavements, a kind of work 

 that was beaten down with the rammer: tit least if we may 

 form a judgment from the nume M that has been given to them. 

 The first diamonded 49 pavement at Home was laid in the Templo 

 of Jupiter Capitol ID us, after the commencement of the Third 

 Tunic War. That pavements had come into common use be- 

 fore the Cimbric War, and that a taste for them was very 

 prevalent, is evident from the line of Lucilius 



44 With cbtcqiKTod emblems like a pavement marked." 70 



CHAP. C2. TEUIIACE-KOOF PAVEMENTS. 



The Greeks have also invented terrace-roof 1 pavements, and 

 have covered their houses with (hem ; a thing that may easily be 

 done in the hotter climates, but a great mis-take in countries 

 where the rain is apt to become congealed. In making these 

 pavements, the proper plan is to begin with two lay-ere of boards, 

 running different ways, and nailed at the extremities, to prevent 

 them from warping. Upon this planking a rough-work must 

 be laid, one-fourth of which consists of pounded pottery : and 

 upon this, another bed of rough-work, two-fifths composed of 

 lime, a foot iu thickness, and well beaten down with the 

 rammer. Tin; nucleus" is then laid down, a bed six lingers 

 in depth ; and upon that, large square stones, not less than a 



67 " Snbtegulnnea." '* Under covfci*;*- in contradistinction to the "b'.ib- 

 dialiu" of m-xt Chapter. 



CM " pavimontum," from '* pavio, ' to "bent down." 



M " Scutulatum." Having figures in the 'shape cf a lozenge or rhom- 

 bus. 



y The line is, 



44 Artc pavinunti ntquc cmblrmatc vermiculato ;" 



literary compositions being compared by him to the artificial construction 

 of a pavcnn-nt. 



" l " Subdialia ;" more literally, "open-air pavements.". 



72 Or ** kernel ;" RO called hecHiise it lay in the middle. Vitruviua says 

 that it was composed of one purl lime, uiul three paru pounded pottery. 



