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lem: "quos ordinabis et chedriabis et repones in vasis fictilibus in loco quem fecit [Deus] ab initio creaturae orbis terrarum." Assump. Mos., ed. Charles, I. 17. See also Dueange, s.v. Cedria. Vitruvius (II. ix. 13) says: "ex cedro oleum quod cedreum dicitur nascitur, quo reliquae res cum sint unctae, uti etiam libri, a tineis et earie non laeduntur." See above, p. 22. [69] _Epigrams_, III. ii. 6. [70] Ovid (_Tristia_, I. i. 105) addressing his book, says: Cum tamen in nostrum fueris penetrale receptus Contigerisque tuam, scrinia curva, domum. [71] _Epigrams_, I. 117. [72] _Epigrams_, VII. 17. [73] Suet. _Aug._ 31. Libros Sibyllinos condidit duobus _forulis_ auratis sub Palatini Apollinis basi. [74] _Sat._ III. 219. [75] _Georg._ IV. 250. [76] _De Re Rustica_, VIII. 8. Paxillis adactis tabulae superponantur; quae vel loculamenta quibus nidificent aves, vel fictilia columbaria, recipiant. [77] _Ibid._, IX. 12. 2. The writer, having described bees swarming, proceeds: protinus custos novum loculamentum in hoc praeparatum perlinat intrinsecus praedictis herbis ... tum manibus aut etiam trulla congregatas apes recondat, atque ... diligenter compositum et illitum vas ... patiatur in eodem loco esse dum advesperascat. Primo deinde crepusculo transferat et reponat in ordinem reliquarum alvorum. [78] Vegetius, _Art. Vet._, III. 32. Si iumento loculamenta dentium vel dentes doluerint. [79] Vitruvius, _De Arch._, ed. Schneider, X. 9. Insuper autem ad capsum redae loculamentum firmiter figatur habens tympanum versatile in cultro collocatum, etc. [80] Dr. Sandys, in his edition of Aristotle's _Constitution of Athens_, 1893, p. 174, has shewn that in the office of the public clerk a similar contrivance was used, called [Greek: epistulion]: "a shelf supporting a series of pigeon-holes, and itself supported by wooden pedestals." [81] Ulpian, _Digest_, 33. 7. 12. In emptionem domus et specularia et pegmata cedere solent, sive in aediticiis sint posita, sive ad tempus detracta. [82] _Ibid._, 29. 1. 17. Reticuli circa columnas, plutei circa parietes, item cilicia, vela, aedium non sunt. [83] _Sat._ II. 4. I do not think that these lines refer to a library. The whole house, not a single room in it, is full of plaster busts of philosophers. [84] _Ep._ cv. (ed. Billerbeck); _Ad Att._ IV. 4, p. 2. [85] _Ep._ cvi. (_ibid._); _Ad Att._ IV. 5. [86] _Ep._ cxi. (_ibid._); _Ad Att._ IV. 8. [
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