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u tulit, ct pliialam olio belle corrcxit; hoc pafto 

 " putabat fe cctlum Jovis tcnerc. Utiquc poll-. 

 '* quam ill! dixit: num quis alius icit hanc con- 

 " dituram virreorum? Vide modo. Poflquuiu 

 " negavit, jufilt ilium Crdur dccollari ; quia c- 

 " nim, fi fcituin effet, aurum pro 3uto habere- 

 " nius *." The fame (lory is told by Dion Cai- 

 fiuif, Johannes Sa rid) uric nfis J, and Pliny; who 

 adds, that, though the fume of the flexible glais. 

 difcovcrcd under Tiberius was very general, ycr. 

 it wanted farther confirmation 5- 



What Seneca means, by the " collcctio ignh 

 " nhiminc," is rather obfcure, imlcfs it refers to 

 fome kind of pyrophorus ]!. 



The fame luxury and difliputinn tl)at dcftroy- 

 ed the warlike genius of the Romans led them 

 to a corrupt and intemperate abufe of the arts. 

 Not fatisficd with the lined garments, they re- 

 quired them to be tinged with a \ariety of the 

 moil fplendid colours. The face was rendered 

 delicate and beautiful, by means of a poultice 

 made of bread and aflos milk, a fine colour be- 

 ing uiperinduccd with a mixture of ceruJe and 

 purple. The hair was powdered with gold 

 dud, as we learn from Ovid, Martial, and 

 Plant us. The apertures or windows of their 

 F 3 h on I'M 



Satyr. 



| Hill L. viJ. 



I Polyor. L. iv. r. j. 



f ( L. xxxv. :. id. 



! O. N. I., ii, c. 17. 



