BOOK I 



date of earliest use of silver inlay on couclies, of 

 silver vessels of excessive size, of trays inlayed with 

 silver, of making ' drums ' ; excessive prices for 

 silver ; silver statuary ; famous works of art and 

 artists in silver. (Ivi-Iviii) Of yellow ochre, who 

 first used for painting and how. Steel blue ; drugs 

 made from, 2. — Total 288 drugs, investigations 

 and observations. 



Authorities : the Emperor Domitian, Junius 

 Gracchanus, Lucius Piso, Marcus Varro, Corvinus, 

 Pomponius Atticus, Licinius Calvus, Cornelius Nepos, 

 Mucianus, Bocchus, Fetialis, Fenestella, Valerius 

 Maximus, Julius Bassus, Greek medical writings of, 

 Sextius Niger, ditto. Foreign authorities : Theo- 

 phrastus, Democritus, Juba, the historian Timaeus's 

 Mineral Drugs, Heraclides, Andreas, Diagoras, 

 Botrys, Archedemus, Dionysius, Aristogenes, Demo- 

 cles, Mnesides, Attalus the medical writer, Xeno- 

 crates ditto, Theomnestus, Nymphodorus, lollas, 

 ApoIIodorus, Pasiteles's Masterpieces, Antigonus 

 On Graving, Menaechmus ditto, Xenocrates diito, 

 Duris ditto, Menander On Gravers, HeIiodorus's 

 Votive Offenngs of Athens, Metrodorus of Scepsis. 



Book XXXIV. Contents : (i) Copper metals. 

 (ii-x) Kinds of copper — Corinthian,Delian, Aeginetan. 

 On bronze dining-couches ; on candelabra ; on temple 

 decorations of bronze ; first bronze image of a god 

 made at Rome ; on the origin of statues and the 

 reverence paid to them. (x-xix) Statues, their 

 kinds and shapes. Ancient statues dressed in toga 

 without tunic ; the first statues at Rome, the first 

 erected by the state, the first erected on a column ; 

 ship's beaks, when added; first foreigners to whom 

 statues erected by the state at Rome ; tirst women to 



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