. 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 . aved with rough pieces of stone,while in the rest of the rooms it is made of stucco or use of water-mills, however, was not unknown to theRomans. Vitruvius describes their construction in terms notinapplicable to the mechanism of a common mill of thepresent day,* and other ancient authors refer to them. Setnot your hands to the mill, O women that turn the mill-stone ! sleep sound tho
. 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 . aved with rough pieces of stone,while in the rest of the rooms it is made of stucco or use of water-mills, however, was not unknown to theRomans. Vitruvius describes their construction in terms notinapplicable to the mechanism of a common mill of thepresent day,* and other ancient authors refer to them. Setnot your hands to the mill, O women that turn the mill-stone ! sleep sound though the cocks crow announce thedawn, for Ceres has charged the nymphs with the labourswhich employed your arms. These, dashing from the summitof a wheel, make its axle revolve, which, by the help ofmoving radii, sets in action the weight of four hollow taste anew the life of the first men, since we have learntto enjoy, without fatigue, the produce of Ceres.] In the centre of the pier, at the back, is the aperture tothe cistern by which the water used in making bread wassupplied. On each side are vessels to hold the water Onthe pier above is a painting, J divided horizontally into two \. Painting In the Bakehouse. compartments. The figures in the upper one are said torepresent the worship of the goddess Fornax, the goddess ofthe oven, which seems to have been deified solely for the * Vitruv. X. 10. (I t Antipater of Thessalonica, ap. Brunc] Analecta Gracca, torn. ii. p. 119, X Now obliterated. ART OF BAKING. 359 advantages wliicli it possessed over the old method of bakingon the hearth. Below, two guardian serpents roll towardsan altar crowned with a fruit very much like a pine-apple;while above, two little birds are in chase of large birds, thus placed in a symbolical picture, may beconsidered, in perfect accordance with the spirit of ancientmythology, as emblems of the genii of the place, employedin driving those troublesome insects from the bread. The ove
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