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ligula’s reception of the Jewifh deputies. <f When 
“ (fays he) we had entered upon our harangue, the 
<c Emperor perceiving, that fome things of no fmall 
<c weight were urged, and that others no lefs ftrong 
“ were likely to be alleged, he broke off the audi- 
“ ence, and hurried away, with great precipitation, 
“ into a fpacious hall : there walking * about, he 
“ commanded the windows to be fhut on every fide, 
“ confiding of white glafs, refembling plates of the 
“ lapis fpecularis, which admit the light, but exclude 
“ the wind and the fun.” 
This authority indeed, if genuine, would have 
fully anfwered my purpofe ; but, upon confulting 
the text of Philo, I was fully convinced, that the 
Cardinal’s tranllation of the latter part of this paffage, 
which alone affedts the prefent inquiry, was diredtly 
contrary to the original ; which imports, that the 
windows in the imperial apartment confided of la- 
minae of done, almod as tranfparent as glafs -f\ 
I cannot leave this paffage, without taking notice 
of that conclufion of it, viz. “ That the windows of 
“ the lapis fpecularis admitted the light, but excluded 
tc the violent heat of the fun.” This feems to prove. 
'* Obambulanfque juffit claudi feneftras vitro candido fimili la- 
pidibus fpecularibus, quibus lux admittitur, ventus et fol excludi- 
tur. This verfion of Baronius is the fame verbatim with that in 
the editions of Geneva 1613, Lut. Par. 1640, and Francf. 1691. 
f U^Tei-iJu ras kv ro (ivp'ifa; araMipd-nrct/ roit -j&Kq> tei/tcn 
cf IcLtycLViGl rra£a.ThWTlUS A! 08/f, 01 75 /At’ QCoi «JC ctyllMV 
j'i hfyxrt, roy a. 7 r » Mu p\eyuip. Ed. Lut. 1640. & Franc. 1691. 
Since the writing of this, Dr. Birch has informed me, that Dr. 
Mangey has tranflated this paflage agreeably to my idea, viz. La- 
pidibus haud minus pellucidis quam vitro candido. 
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