A dictionary of Greek and Roman . were alsomuch enriched with sculpture. A silver coffer,2 feet long, 1£ wide, and 1 deep, most elaboratelyadorned with figures in bas-relief, is described byBottiger. (Sabina, vol. i. pp. 64—80. plate iii.)The annexed woodcut (from Ant. dErcolano, tab. 7) represents a very plain jewel-box, out ofwhich a dove is extracting a riband or fillet. Nero. deposited his beard in a valuable pyxis, when heshaved for the first time. [Barba.] The same term is applied to boxes used to con-tain drugs or poison (Cic. pro Caelio, 25—29 ;Quintil. vi. 3. § 2
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . were alsomuch enriched with sculpture. A silver coffer,2 feet long, 1£ wide, and 1 deep, most elaboratelyadorned with figures in bas-relief, is described byBottiger. (Sabina, vol. i. pp. 64—80. plate iii.)The annexed woodcut (from Ant. dErcolano, tab. 7) represents a very plain jewel-box, out ofwhich a dove is extracting a riband or fillet. Nero. deposited his beard in a valuable pyxis, when heshaved for the first time. [Barba.] The same term is applied to boxes used to con-tain drugs or poison (Cic. pro Caelio, 25—29 ;Quintil. vi. 3. § 25) ; and to metallic rings em-ployed in machinery. (Plin. xviii. 11. ) [J. Y.] Q. QUADRAGESIMA, the fortieth part of theimported goods, was the ordinary rate of the Por- QUADRANTAL. torium. (Suet. Vespas. 1. ; Quintil. Declam. 359 ;Symmach. Epist. v. 62, 65.) Tacitus {Ann. ) says that the Quadragesima was abolished by-Nero and had not been imposed again (manetabolitio quadragesimae) ; but it appears most pro-bable that this Quadragesima abolished by Nerowas not the Portorium, but the tax imposed byCaligula (Suet. Cal. 40) of the fortieth part of thevalue of all property, respecting which there wasany law-suit. That the latter is the more probableopinion appears from the fact, that we never readof this tax upon law-suits after the time of Nero,while the former one is mention
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