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fUn) ruppofed that thefe Lithoftrota (i ) or tefFerated 
Pavements had their original in Greece ; but perhaps the 
Grecians borrow’d their Patterns from Afia : for from the 
Book of Efther ( w / we learn, there was a mod Royal 
Banquet at Suza^ on a Lithoflroton (io tire Septuagint has 
ic^ of cohly Stones, four Hundred Years before the 
time of S-jlU, who brought them firft into Italy. Jofe~ 
phiu afSrms (»), that the Grecian Laws, Learning and 
Arts were fetch’d from Afia ; and indeed when we reflecd 
on the Antiquity of the Law , the Pyramids of 
Egypt ‘-f the Temple of Sdmbn; the Walls and Palaces 
oY Babylon; and the fumptuous remains of i'almyra and 
Ferfepol/s; We have no reaibn to eflccm the Grecians Au- 
thors, but as good imitators of thofe early Examples of 
Learning and Arts th:y had to follow. 
When ^in^us Cicero was here with C^fir, the fecond 
lime he invaded Britain ; his Brother the incompaiable 
Tfli/y, had the overfight of fome Buildings he had ap- 
pointed to be made in the f^illa dar/l/ana atArcano . and 
in a Letter fent into 77/i/y informs ^inU u, that 
he was well pleas’d with the Seat, and the more, be- 
caufe the Pavimented Piazza was Magnificent : that 
the Pavement feem’d {o) to be exadtly well made ^ 
that he had direded fome Chambers to be alter d bccaufe 
he did not approve of them.* that in the Bathing Apart- 
ment, he had remov’d the Sweating Room into another 
corner of the Apodyterium. And afterwards in the 
fame. Letter makes mention of fuch another Work which 
was in band for him in the City alfo. Again, about 
the time ^inclus return’d out of Britain, and was fixt 
with the Legion he prefided over, in Winter Quarters 
1 _ 
( / y Plin. Sea. Hift. Lib. XXXVI. Cap. XXV. 
( ZB ) Efth. Chap. I V. ^ ( » ) jofeph againji Appion. Book II. 
{a ) Tull. Cic. ad Qviinft. Frat. ^ib. III. Ep. I. 
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