Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . Tajula; and Calamus. tabulce accepti et expensi, or account-books. When they were full, or when the writing on them was no longer useful, the wax was smoothed, and they were ready again for other service. The cut above, besides an inkstand, represents a:i open book. 536 POMPEII. The thinness and yellowish colour of the leaves, which aretied together with ribbon, denote that it was made of parch-m
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . Tajula; and Calamus. tabulce accepti et expensi, or account-books. When they were full, or when the writing on them was no longer useful, the wax was smoothed, and they were ready again for other service. The cut above, besides an inkstand, represents a:i open book. 536 POMPEII. The thinness and yellowish colour of the leaves, which aretied together with ribbon, denote that it was made of parch-ment or vellum. Below is a cylindrical box, called scrinium and capsa, ormpsula, in which the manuscripts were placed vertically, thetitles at the top. Catullus excuses himself to Manlius fornot having sent him the required verses, because he had withhim only one box of his books. It is evident that a greatnumber of volumes might be comprised in this way within a. Scrinium and Capsa. small space ; and this may tend to explain the smallness ofthe ancient libraries—at least of the rooms which are con-sidered to have been such. Beside the box are two tablets,which, from the money-bag and coins scattered about, hadprobably been used in reckoning accounts. This will bringto the students recollection the — Mersam pom jubet atque Effundi saccos nummorum *of Horace, and the well-known lines of Juvenal— Pleno cum turret sacculus ore Ciescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia No perfect papyri, but only fragments, have been found atPompeii. At Herculaneum, up to the year 1825, 1756 hadbeen obtained, besides many others destroyed by the workmen,who imagined them to be mere sticks of charcoal. Most ofthem were found in a suburban villa, in a room of small * Sat. ;i. 3, 140. t Juv. xiv. 138. DOMESTIC UTENSILS. 537 dimensions, ranged in presses round the sides of the room, inthe centre of which stood a sort of rectangular Humphry Da
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