BOOK I 



often the title * equestrian order ' altered ; gold 

 and silver military gifts ; gold wreath, when first 

 bestowed; other nses of gold, its use by women. 

 (xiii-xxv) Gold coinage ; date of earliest coins, copper, 

 silver, gold; method of using copper before intro- 

 duction of stamping ; highest money rating at first 

 census ; how often and at what dates value of copper 

 and stamped coinage raised; the lust for gold; 

 largest owners of silver and gold; date of earhest 

 employment of silver ornaments in the arena, and on 

 the stage ; dates of largest accumulations of gold 

 and silver in the national treasury ; date of earhest 

 gilded ceiUngs ; reasons for special value of gold ; 

 method of gilding ; discovery of gold ; orpiment ; 

 synthetic amber ; earliest gold statues ; 8 drugs 

 from gold. (xxvi-ix) malachite, method of em- 

 ploying it in painting ; 7 drugs from malachite ; 

 goldsmith's malachite or mountain-green. (xxx) 

 Remarkable natural facts as to the welding of 

 metals and as to metal manufactures. (xxxi-v) 

 Silver ; quicksilver ; antimony or stibis or ala- 

 baster or larbasis or platyopathalmus, drugs 

 made of, 7 ; silver slag, drugs made of, 6 ; foam 

 of silver, drugs made of, 7. (xxxvi-xli) Minimum, 

 reverence for among tbe ancients ; discovery and 

 source of ; cinnabar, method of using in medicine 

 and in painting ; kinds of red-lead ; method of use 

 in medicine and painting ; watersilver. (xhii f.) 

 Gilding of silver ; touchstones for gold. (xliv-lv) 

 Silver, its kinds and methods of testing ; mirrors ; 

 Egyptian silver ; immoderate wealth ; who were the 

 richest people ; when did the Roman nation begin 

 to squander money ; luxury in silver vessels ; 

 sparing use of silver in antiquity, instances of; 



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