[40] HYMETTUS. A mountain in Attica, famed for its delicious honey. (Horace, _Od._ II, 6, 14). [41] POLISHED EMERALD. (Plin. _Hist. Nat._ XXXVII, 64) where it is stated that the emperor Nero used such an eye-glass at the public games. [42] THE LOBSTER, (_cammarus_), was less highly esteemed by the Romans than among ourselves. See Plin. _Ep._ II, 17. “The sea, it is true, has no superabundance of delicious fish; yet it gives us excellent soles and lobsters”--a passage in which lobsters are contrasted with delicious fish. [43] CUT CRYSTAL. Window panes of glass (_vitrum_) mica plates (_lapis specularis_) and similar materials were by no means rare in ancient times. [44] MENANDER, son of the general Diopeithes, B.C. 342. The most distinguished poet of the New Comedy; fragments of his comedies have come down to us. [45] TIBUR. A favorite summer resort of the Roman aristocracy, now Tivoli. [46] CAPPADOCIAN HORSES. The province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor was famed for its horses. [47] LITTERS (_lectica_). The usual conveyance, somewhat resembling the Oriental palanquin, were supplied with rich curtains (_vela_) and in other respects became the object of luxurious decorations. The number of litter-bearers (_lecticarii_, _calones_) varied from two to eight. In the city of Rome itself, where riding in carriages was not allowed during the day-time, the _lecticae_ took the place of our carriages and hacks, for they could also be hired by the hour, and there were stands of them (_castra lecticariorum_) in several frequented quarters. CHAPTER II. The squall had completely died away; the waves were still tossing and tumbling in the bay, but the streamers of the crowd of barks, which lay under the shore, hardly fluttered in the breeze, and the fishing-boats were putting out to sea in little fleets.