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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
other contemporary nations attempted it. From Syria the art was brought by the Crusaders to Europe (1177), and established in Venice, which long had a monopoly therein and attained great excellence. See p. 976. Theophrastus, the pupil and successor of Aristotle, notices the fitness of the sand at the mouth of the river Belus for the manufacture of glass. Lucretius termed it vilrum. Cicero mentions glass, linen, and paper as the common articles of Egyptian merchandise. Scaurus, 58 B. C., introduced it in the seena of his gorgeous theatre, which was divided into three tiers: the lower of marble, the middle of glass, the upper of gilded wood. The price of a glass drinking-cup in the time of Strabo was half an as. The as was about one cent. The Museo Borbonico of Naples contains about 2,400 specimens of ancient glass, recovered principally from Pompeii and Herculaneum. They represent numerous forms of glass ornamentation in green, opal, blue, red, white, and yellow.
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Marcus Cicero (search)
Marcus Cicero Tullius, the orator (106-43), born at Arpinum, educated at Rome under Archias, the Scaevolas, and the teachers of philosophy (see Introduction), at Athens, in Asia, and at Rhodes; his training was all for service, 1.155. as consul (63) he crushed the conspiracy of Catiline, 1.84. banished (58), 2.58. his enforced retirement from his profession, 3.2–4. as a philosopher and orator, 1.1–3. follower of Socrates and Plato, 1.2. of the New Academy, 2.7–8. why he wrote on philosophy, 2.2–8; 3.1–5. attitude on the downfall of the repub
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Marcus Scaurus (search)
Marcus Scaurus Aemilius, son of the preceding, stepson of Sulla, aedile (58) with extraordinary magnificence, 2.57. governor of Sardinia (56), which he plundered outrageously; successfully defended by Cicero and Hortensius; later (52) condemned and banished, 1.138. palace on the Palatine, 1.138.
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