BOOK XXXV. xLix. 172-L. 175 



Mausolus " at Halicarnassus, buildings still standing. 377-353 b.c. 

 Murena and Varro in their aedileship had some 

 plaster work on brick walls at Sparta cut away, 

 and because of the excellence of its painting had 

 it enclosed in wooden frames and brought to Rome 

 to decorate the Assembly-place. It was in itself a 

 wonderful piece of work, yet its transfer caused even 

 more admiration. In Italy also there is a brick wall 

 at Arezzo and at Mevania. Structures of this sort 

 are not erected in Rome, because an eighteen-inch 

 wall will only carry a single storey, and there is a 

 regulation forbidding any partition exceeding that 

 thickness : nor does the system used for party-walls 

 permit of it. 



L. Let this be what we say about bricks. Among suiphur. 

 the other kinds of earth the one with the most remark- 

 able properties is sulphur, which exercises a great 

 power over a great many other substances. Sulphur 

 occurs in the Aeolian Islands between Sicily and 

 Italy, which we have said are volcanic, but the most m, 92 &. 

 famous is on the island of Melos. It is also found in 

 Italy, in the territory of Naples and Campania, on 

 the hills called the Leucogaei. It is there dug out of 

 mine-shafts and dressed with fire. There are four 

 kinds : live sulphur, the Greek name for which 

 means * untouched by fire,' which alone forms as a 

 solid mass — for all the other sorts consist of Hquid 

 and are prepared by boiling in oil ; live sulphur is 

 dug up, and it is translucent and of a green colour ; 

 it is the only one of all the kinds that is employed 

 by doctors. The second kind is called ' clod- 

 sulphur,' and is commonly found only in fullers' 



" The remains of his monuraeiit the Mausoleum were brought 

 to England in 1859. 



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