[86] IBYCUS OF RHEGION in Lower Italy (B.C. 528). A distinguished lyric poet, who is the hero of a well-known poem by Schiller. Few of his numerous lyric compositions remain to us. We here give a translation of Emanuel Geibel’s admirable German version of his Spring-greeting. (_Classisches Liederbuch_, p. 44.) [87] QUINCE. Cydonia is the modern botanical name of the quince, called by the Greeks and Romans the Cydonian apple, after Cydonia, in the island of Crete. [88] WATER-ORGAN (_Hydraulus_, ὕδραυλος). A musical instrument mentioned by Cicero, Seneca and others. Ammianus observes: “Water-organs and lyres are made so large, that they might be mistaken for coaches.” [89] BAIAE was considered from ancient times friendly to Bacchus. (Sen. _Ep._ 51). [90] STATIUS.--P. Papinius Statius, born in Naples, A.D. 45, and died A.D. 96, was a lyric and epic poet, often artificial in style, but possessed of a brilliant imagination. His principal works are the epic poem “Thebais,” in which he treats of the battle of the sons of Oedipus before Thebes, and the Silvae (woods), a collection of short poems. He also commenced an epic poem “Achilleis.” [91] MARTIAL. (See note 100, vol. 1.) [92] CUBICULUM. A sleeping-room. The _cubicula_ were located in the atrium, peristyle, and upper stories. [93] NOTE. The Romans wrote their letters either on wax-tablets, (See note 10, vol. 1.) or on paper (_papyrus_, _carta_), using in the former case the stylus, in the latter a reed-pen and Indian ink. When the letter was finished, the wax-tablets were laid one above the other, and the papyrus folded several times. A string was then wound around the whole and the ends sealed. [94] THE EMPRESS DOMITIA. The emperor’s wife was Domitia Longina, the daughter of Corbulo, and formerly the wife of Aelius Lamia, (Suet. _Dom._ 1).