( 5^1 ) 
among; the l^ervH ('of which Cafar in his Commentaries 
makes mention^ ; TuUy (p) takes notice of a Pavement 
that was making for himidf alfo .• Expolitiones utriufqus 
nojirum, f'int in manihus \ fed uta pcene ad ttcluni jr-n per- 
duda res e(l rufiica. Arcani Laterii. ’Tis hinted by Far- 
ro that a Litho[troton was one of the Members of a coni- 
pleat ViUj. (qj: Farro vvas eighty Years old when his 
Books de Re ruft ca were compoled : Tully was fomerhing 
more than fifty when the above cited Epifiles were 
W’rote; Lafar when a General, made the Te(ferr { r ) and 
Sedilia for Pavements, to be part of his Baggage ; and 
Fifruviiis, Coremporary with thefe three, calls the Litho- 
firotay : rincipia Expolitionum (/) ; which make it evi- 
dent theie Floors were held in efteem, by as great Men 
as the World has afforded, even in their riper ^ Years. 
From ail this, we may obferve, that fometime before, 
and in the firfl Age of riie Empire, the humour of thefe 
kinds of Floorings much prevail’d among the Romans % 
wherefore ’tis no wonder they are found in fb many 
places of this Ifland. Bur, as unprofitable Inventions 
and Culloms in time grow Stale, and are laid afide, 
fo fared it with that of Pavements : For in the time of 
Eliny they began to be out of ufe on the Ground; 
but then he relis us, they were made above Stairs ( r ), 
or in his own Words in Chambers. Whether the Li- 
thofirota in Chambers were ufual in Fitruvius'^ days, 
we have no Warrant to fuppofe, from any hint in his 
Writings ; notwiihftanding he gives Rules for making 
them, piano pede^on the Ground ; and fab (h) dio, (which 
( ^ ) Ibid. Ep. ri. ( ^ ) Ter. Varro de Re ruft’e. Lib.-III. 
(r) Suet. Tranq. Jul Caf. Cap. 4^. (r) M.Viiruv. Pol. 
Lib VII Cap, I. (t) Plin. Hift. Lib. XXXVI. Cap. XXV, 
Pulfa deinde ex hiimo Pavimenta in cameras tranfiere e vitro: novitium 
& hoe inventum. ( « ) M. Vitruv. Lib. Vll. Cap. I, Sob dio vero 
maxime idonea faciunda funt pavimenta, 
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