Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . was called argiletus, or that part of the Forum or streetcalled Janus ; where was a temple or statue of the god Ver-tumnus.^^ 1 Gell. xvii. 9. laevigabant, Ov. Trist. 9 coccus vel purpura, 13 Plin. x. 43. s. 60. 2 Suet. Claud. 23. Caes. i. 1. 9. iii. 1. J3. Mart. ib. xviii. 10. Hor. Gd. Aug. 67. 5 cedro illinebant. 10 rubrics, see p. 183. 4. 8. Cic. Pliil. vii. 3. Jul. 55. Sen. Ep. 6 a tineis et carie, ib. 11 Cic. Fam. v. 9. xiii. Legg. i. 13. Or. Cic. Alt. i. 12. Plin. xiii. 12. Mart. iii
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . was called argiletus, or that part of the Forum or streetcalled Janus ; where was a temple or statue of the god Ver-tumnus.^^ 1 Gell. xvii. 9. laevigabant, Ov. Trist. 9 coccus vel purpura, 13 Plin. x. 43. s. 60. 2 Suet. Claud. 23. Caes. i. 1. 9. iii. 1. J3. Mart. ib. xviii. 10. Hor. Gd. Aug. 67. 5 cedro illinebant. 10 rubrics, see p. 183. 4. 8. Cic. Pliil. vii. 3. Jul. 55. Sen. Ep. 6 a tineis et carie, ib. 11 Cic. Fam. v. 9. xiii. Legg. i. 13. Or. Cic. Alt. i. 12. Plin. xiii. 12. Mart. iii. 77. Att. i. 12. Ni-p. Fin. v. 3. 6 Mart xiv. 203. Aus. 2. v. 6. viii. 61. Att. 14. Suet. Cal. 28. 14 Oell. v. 4. Cic. Phil. Ep. 146. 17. Manil. iv. 7 Hor. Art. P. 332. Aug. 78. Plin. Ep. viii. ii. 9. Mil. 12. 195. Plin. Ep. , P^rs. i. 42. 1. 15 MarU i. 4. Hor. Ep. 36. L,iv. xxxviii. 55. 8 niinium, v. cinnaba- 12 Suet. i. aO. 1. Cic. Att. ix. 4. xii. 3. ris, Ov. ib. Plin. xxxiii. 14. Tac. Ann. xv. 35. 4 pumice poliebant vel 7. xvi. 8. LIBRARIES. 447. LIBRARIES. A GREAT number of books, or the place where they were kept,was called bibliotheca, a library.^ The first famous library was collected by Ptolemy Philadel-phus at Alexandria, iu Egypt, B. C. 284., containing^ 700,000volumes ; the next by Attalus, or Eumenes, king of Pergamus.^ Adjoining to the Alexandrian library was a building calledMUSEUM,^ for the accommodation of a college or society* oflearned men, Avho Avere supported there at the public expense,?with a covered walk and seats ^ Avhere they might dispute. Anadditional museum was built there by Claudius. Museum isused by us for a repository of learned curiosities, as it seems tobe by Pliny.^ A great part of the Alexandrian library was burnt by theflames of Cassars fleet, when he set it on tire to save himself,but neither Caesar himself nor Hirtius mention this was again restored by Cleopatra, who, for that purpose, re-ceived from
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