A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lled ad Solarium, so that Cicerouses this expression as synonymous with Rostraor Forum {pro Quinct. 18, ad Herenn. iv. 10).Horologia of various descriptions seem also to havebeen commonly kept by private individuals ( Fam. xvi. 18) ; and at the time of the emperors,the wealthy Romans used to keep slaves whosespecial duty it was to announce the hours of the dayto their masters. (Juven. x. 215 ; Mart. viii. 67 ;Petron. 26.) From the number of solaria which have beendiscovered in modern times in Italy, Ave must inferthat they were very general
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lled ad Solarium, so that Cicerouses this expression as synonymous with Rostraor Forum {pro Quinct. 18, ad Herenn. iv. 10).Horologia of various descriptions seem also to havebeen commonly kept by private individuals ( Fam. xvi. 18) ; and at the time of the emperors,the wealthy Romans used to keep slaves whosespecial duty it was to announce the hours of the dayto their masters. (Juven. x. 215 ; Mart. viii. 67 ;Petron. 26.) From the number of solaria which have beendiscovered in modern times in Italy, Ave must inferthat they were very generally used among theancients. The following woodcut represents oneof the simplest horologia which have been dis-covered ; it seems to bear great similarity to that,the invention of which Vitruvius ascribes toBerosus. It was discovered in 1741, on the hillof Tusculum, among the ruins of an ancient villa,and is described by Gio. Luca Zuzzeri, in a workentitled D1 una antica villa scoperta sul dosso delTusculo, e dun antico orologio a sole, Venezia,. 1746, and by G. H. Martini, in his Abhandlungvon den Sonnenuhren der Alten, Leipzig, 1777,p. 49, &c. The following woodcut shows the same solariumas restored by Zuzzeri. o R
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