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The feven and thirtieth Rooke 
make fome paiment of impoft or taxes levied upon them, But duguflus Cafar,to avoid the ob- G — 
loquie that arofe by his Sphinx, gave over {ealing therewith and figned ever after with the image 
of K. Alexander the Great, | } 
As touching a cabinet orcafe for many rings and fuch jewels, which they call by a forreine 
Greekename Dadtyliotheca,the firft that ever was knowneto have any fuch atRome, was Scan 
rus, whofe mother Syl the Di@atour married: and for a long time there was no other befidés ; 
untill Porspezws the Great met with the jewell-casket of King -1srhridates, which among many 
other rich oblations, he prefented in the Capitol]; and by the relation of -%.Varro and other 
approoved authors of thattime, it was much preferred beforethat of Scaurus : in imitation of 
whofeexample, C4/ar DiGtatourconfecrated in the temple of Venus Genitrix, fix {uch like cabi- 
nets or caskets of rings and jewels:and Marcellus, fonne to O¢¢avia, dedicated one in the tem- 
ple Palatine of pollo, Finally, this is to be obferved, that the faid victorie of Pompeius which he 
atchieved over K..Mithridates,fet mens teeth at Rome a watering after pearls and pretious ftones; 
like as the conquefts obtained by Z, Scipio and Ca. Maniius, brought them into love with filver 
plate curioufly enchafed and emboffed: alfo with rich hangings of cloth of gold, filver, and tif- 
fue, rogither with beds and tables of braffe; even asthe brafen ftatues and veflels of Corinthian 
brafle, and the curious painted tables,came in requeftupon the victorie that L. Mummius gai- 
nedover Achzxa. | 
Cuap. if. 
¢& Of Lems and pretious flones that Pompeius fhewed in his trinmph. The nature of Cryflails ° 
and the medicinable properties thereof. the famptuous and fuperfluous expences in 
vefsels made of it. The first invention of Cafsidoine nfl and the ex 
ceffe that way: the nature and properties of thofe Cafidoins, 
And what untruths the writers in oldtime have 
delivered as touching Amber. 
Othe end that it may appeare more evidently, what the triumph of Pompey wrought in this 
refpeét,I will put downe word for word what | find upon record in the regifters that beare 
witneffe of the actes which pafled during thofe triumphs. In the third triumph therefore 
which was decreed unto him (for that he had {coured the feas of pyrats and rovers, reduced Na- 
toliaand thekingdome of Pontus under the dominion of the Romans, defeated kings and nati- 
ons, according as I have declared in the feventh booke of this my hiftorie) he entred Rome the 
Jaft day of September, inthe yeere when M, Pifo and M. Mefoala were Confuls, on which day 
there was carried before him in fhew, achefle-bourd with allthe men, andthe fame bourd was 
made of two pretious ftones, and yet it was two foot broad and four foot long : and leaft any man 
_fhould doubt hereof and thinke it incredible, confidering that no jems atthis day comeneare 
thereto in bigneffe, knowhe, That in this triumph hee fhewed a golden moone weighing thir- 
tie pounds, three dining-tables alfo of gold, other veffell likewife of maflie gold and pretious 
ftones as much as would garnith nine cupbourds ; three images of beaten gold reprefenting 
Minerva, Mars, and 4 pollo coronets made of ftonestothe number of three and thirtie;a 
mountaine made ofgold foure fquare, wherein aman might fee red deere, lyons, fruit-trees of 
all forts,and the whole mountain envitoned and compafled all about witha vine of gold: more- 
Over, an oratorie or clofet confifting of pearle,in the top or louver whereof there was aclocke or 
horcloge: He caufed alfo to be borne before him ina pompous fhew, his owne image made of 
pearls; the portraiture (I fay) of that Cx. Pompeiws whome regall majeftieand ornaments. would 
have better befeemed ; and that good face and venerable vifage fo highly honoured among all 
nations, was nowall of pearls; asifthat manly countenance and feveritie of hishad beenvan- _ 
quifhed, and roiotous exceffe and fuperfluitie had triumphed over bim, rather than hee over it, 
O Pompey, Magnus, howcould this title and furname Le-grand, have continued among 'thofe 
nations, ifthou hadit in thy firft viGtorie triumphed after this manner! VVhat; “gnu, wete 
there no meanes elfe but to feeke out pearles, (things fo prodigal, fuperfluous,,and deviled for 
women, and which ithad not befeemed Pompey once to weare about him)and therewith to poute 
tray and counterfeit chy manly vifege! And was this the way indeed to have thy felfe feeme pre- 
tious? doth not that pourtraiture come nearer unto thee and refemble thy aa 
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