596' APPENDIX. 



" Heic et Amyclaei caesum de monte Lycurgi 

 Quod viret, et molles imitatur rupibus herbas." 



Id. 



" Herbosis quae vernant marmora venis." 



Id. 



** Post caute Laconum 



Marmoris herbosi radians interviret ordo." 



Id. 



Procopius de JEA. compares it to emerald. 

 In a noted passage, Sidonius thus describes the chief mar- 

 bles of antiquity : 



" Hie lapis est de quinque locis, dans quinque colores, 

 jEthiopus, Phrygius, Parius, Poenus, Lacedaemon, 

 Purpureus, viridis, maculosus, eburnus, et albus." 



African red, Phrygian spotted, Laconian green, Parian 

 white, Poenus like ivory. 



Carystian, green, veined and spotted, also called Euboean. 

 As it was spotted, it is probably the verd antique sanguine, of 

 a deep sea-green with little red and black spots. It was 

 most probably a serpentine, for amianthus was found in it, as 

 is clear from a p*assage of Plutarch. 



" In some countries we see lakes and whole rivers, and not 

 a few fountains and springs of hot waters, have sometimes 

 failed and been entirely lost -, and at others, have fled and 

 absconded themselves, being hidden and concealed under the 

 earth ; but perhaps, some years after, do appear again in the 

 same place, or else run hard by. And so of metal mines, 

 some have been quite exhausted, as the silver ones about 

 Attica ; and the same has happened to the veins of brass ore 

 in Euboea, of which the best blades were made, and hardened 

 in cold water, as the poet JEschylus tells us, 



' Taking his sword a right Euboean blade* 



" Tis not long since the quarry of Carystns has ceased to 



