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Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s,has given a fancy picture of the habitation of a Eomannoble of the highest class, in which he has embodied allthe scattered notices of domestic life, which a diligent pe-rusal of the Latin writers has enabled him to collect. Hisdescription of the triclinium of Scaurus will give thereader the best notion of the style in which such anapartment was furnished and ornamented. For each par-ticular in the description he quotes some authority. Weshall not, however, encumber our pages with references toa long list of books not likely to be in the possession of mostreaders. The triclinium is twice as long as it is broad, and divided,as it were, into two parts—the upper occupied by the tableand the couches, the lower left empty for the convenience ofthe attendants and spectators. Around the former the walls,Mp to a certain height, are ornamented with valuable hang- 258 POMPEII. ings.* The decorations of the rest of the room are noble,and yet appropriate to its destination; garlands, entwined
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Dancing Fauns. From the decorated walls of Pompeii. with ivy and vine-branches, divide the walls into compart-ments, bordered with fanciful ornaments; in the centre of * It was the fall of such hangings that created such confusion at Nasidieiiussupper. Interea suspensa graves aulaea ruinasIn patinam fecere; trahentia pulveris atriQuantum non Aquilo Canipanis excitat agris. Kor. Sat. ii. 8. 54. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF ITALY. 259 each of whicli are painted with admirable elegance youngFauns, or half-naked Bacchantes, carrying thyrsi, vases, andall the furniture of festive meetings. Above the columns isa large frieze, divided into twelve compartments; each ofthese is surmounted by one of the signs of the Zodiac, andcontains paintings of the meats which are in highest seasonin each month; so that under Sagittary (December), we seeshrimps, shell-fish, and birds of passage; under Capricorn(January), lobsters, sea-fish, wild-boar, and game; underAquarius (February), ducks, plovers, pigeons,

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