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Corinthian metal, yet this name specially is commonly 

 attached to them, because although Mummius's 

 victory destroyed Corinth, it caused the dispersal of 

 bronzes from a number of the towns of Achaia at the 

 same time. 



\ II. In early times the lintels and folding doors Various 

 of temples as well were commonly made of bronze. ^bnmze. 

 I find that also Gnaeus Octavius, who was granted a 169 b.o. 

 triumph after a sea-fight against King Perseus, 

 constructed the double colonnade at the Flaminian i67 b.o. 

 circus which owing to the bronze capitals of its columns 

 has received the name of the Corinthian portico, and 

 that a resolution was passed that even the temple of 

 \^esta should have its roof covered with an outer 

 coating of Syracusan metal. The capitals of the 

 pillars in the Pantheon which were put up by Marcus 27 b.o. 

 Agrippa are of Syracusan metal. Moreover even 

 private opulence has been employed in similar 

 uses : one of the charges brought against Camilhis 391 b.o. 

 by the quaestor Spurius CarviHus was that in his 

 house he had doors covered \vith bronze. 



VIII. Again, according to Lucius Piso dinner- 

 couches and panelled sideboards and one-leg tables 

 decorated with bronze were first introduced by 

 Gnaeus ManHus at the triumph which he celebrated 187 b.o. 

 in the 567th year of the city after the conquest of 

 Asia ; and as a matter of fact Antias states that the 

 heirs of Lucius Crassus the orator also sold a number 

 of dinner couches decorated with bronze. It was 

 even customary for bronze to be used for making 

 the cauldrons on tripods called Delphic cauldrons 

 because they used to be chiefiy dedicated as gifts 

 to Apollo of Delphi ; also lamp-holders were popular 

 suspended from the ceihng in temples or with their 



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