MODE I. 



appearance of marble, by insertions added to the 

 natural spots, so as to represent animals and oth< T 

 objects*; whence the Numidian was diversified 

 with artificial eggs, and the Synnadic with rich 

 crimson spots, instead of the dull red furnished 

 by nature 'f. In another passage he says that 

 Lepidus first used Numidian marble in his house, 

 even his threshold being paved with it; whence 

 he incurred public reproach for the new luxury . 

 Four years after, Lucullus brought a marble to 

 Rome, which was called Lucullean, being black, 

 and found in an island of the Nile. But luxury 

 assumed a far wider career, "for ages after the 

 time of Pliny ; and many marbles unknown to 

 that illustrious author must have been imported 

 from Africa, and other countries. 



* xxxv. i. 



f This precious marble was brought from the very centre of Asia 

 Minor, Sinnada, or Synnada, being a town in the greater Phrygia. 

 Strabo says, lib. xii. " Sinada is a town of no great size, before 

 i which is a plain of about sixty stadia, planted with olive trees. 

 Further on is the village of Docimia, and the quarries of Sjjnadic 

 stone ; for so the Romans call it, but the natives Docimite. At first 

 only small pieces were extracted ; now, on account of the prodigious 

 luxury of the Romans, immense and entire columns are hewn out, 

 the stone approaching nearly to the alalastrites in variety. Many 

 loads of this kind are carried down to the sea; and columns and 

 tables of admirable size and beauty are exported to Rome." 



See the Appendix, for a fuller account of the Synnadic, African, 

 fcnd other ancient marbles. 

 xxxvi. 6. 



