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for the fonner of thefe purpoles; as it is well known

that glafs was nm applied to the latter, in optical
ufes, till the beginning of the XIIIth century (7).
However, we may with greater probabihty pro-
par another life, for which the ancients might enw
ploy fuch plates of globs, as ere now under confide-
ration, viz. the adorning thc walls of their apart-
ments by way of wainkot. This I take to be the
meaning of the littera CONK< mentioncd by Pliny (13);
who intimates, that this farhani took its rife from
glafs being ufed by M. &menu (9) for embielLifhing
the fccne of that ungnifwent theatre, which he ercaed
for exhibiting (how, to die Roman people in his adile-
(hip ( to). And we may coiled from die fame an.
thor ( it) (what is further confirmed by his contem-
porary (a 2) Seneca), that this kind of ornament had

(nemis maim, pot .fint end. corpora., an La stiZar

feti pew., #4g1 adaerfi pfirklonlais.
Nat. WI. ith. aallni. co 6. 4. xn.
0) Vitt. Monk Resataidol Momaise do rAcad.
(8) Ira istns, not. I s.
(9) Mar.,* Sori fir o 1.41... ablitod: COOL*
colaosantram. Imo pars/Star fio: mash, c vitro
A...a rehab :Ci Nat. (lift lib. zadN. c.
(to) A. 0. 6p11. Plin. ho, stavA. 0. 11.
to ) tierippo ritennio, fsaio figtino. fp.. ',nevi.
pia., wOO lopai.. lds, adorevit Ien reran raur,,
mon, ft phus inratturn id futirN, ovr foriaido fro.
prww,gir is erar4.i. ha. sow,. e 25. S. 65.
( )- Scnosa, capoling the luou7 of the Romans with segtrd
th,s baths, lays, Pop fidi tGt rfinlid, ifi pro
raifit .44.1 rollfroim. .if rims abkooddre ca.
masa. kp. 86.

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