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that the fpecularia in Martial were made of the fame 
materials, if this reading adopted by Salmafius, &c. 
is to be followed ; viz. 
Specularia puras 
Admittunt luces, et fine foie diem. 
L. viii. Epig. 14.. 
Eut other copies have it 
Specularia puros 
Admittunt foies, et fine faece diem *. 
This reading is efpoufed by Collefliis, the Dauphin 
editor, who further explains (puros) by (nitidos); 
and yet, in his notes, tells us, that thele fpecularia 
were of done or talc; which they could not have 
been, confidently with Philo’s account, but mud 
have been of glafs ; and confequently, we fhould 
have an evidence in Martial for the ufage of glafs in 
windows, as early as the fird century : for that poet 
lived in Rome from A. C. 7 1 to 1 00. 
But perhaps thele (feemingly) contradictory read- 
ings of this pafiage may be reconciled,, as to their 
fenfe, by interpreting (puras luces) in the one, and 
(puros foies) in the other, to mean the mild light 
and warmth of the fun, which remained after the 
greater part of its rays had been either refie&ed by 
the exterior furface, or abforbed within the inteiior 
pores of the done ; or, as Milton expredes it, 
The fun diorn of his beams. 
* l.d. Ingolft. 1602. Pitifcus Specular. &c. 
