[77] _Ibid._, IX. 12. 2. The writer, having described bees swarming, proceeds: protinus custos novum loculamentum in hoc praeparatum perlinat intrinsecus praedictis herbis ... tum manibus aut etiam trulla congregatas apes recondat, atque ... diligenter compositum et illitum vas ... patiatur in eodem loco esse dum advesperascat. Primo deinde crepusculo transferat et reponat in ordinem reliquarum alvorum. [78] Vegetius, _Art. Vet._, III. 32. Si iumento loculamenta dentium vel dentes doluerint. [79] Vitruvius, _De Arch._, ed. Schneider, X. 9. Insuper autem ad capsum redae loculamentum firmiter figatur habens tympanum versatile in cultro collocatum, etc. [80] Dr. Sandys, in his edition of Aristotle's _Constitution of Athens_, 1893, p. 174, has shewn that in the office of the public clerk a similar contrivance was used, called [Greek: epistulion]: "a shelf supporting a series of pigeon-holes, and itself supported by wooden pedestals." [81] Ulpian, _Digest_, 33. 7. 12. In emptionem domus et specularia et pegmata cedere solent, sive in aediticiis sint posita, sive ad tempus detracta. [82] _Ibid._, 29. 1. 17. Reticuli circa columnas, plutei circa parietes, item cilicia, vela, aedium non sunt. [83] _Sat._ II. 4. I do not think that these lines refer to a library. The whole house, not a single room in it, is full of plaster busts of philosophers. [84] _Ep._ cv. (ed. Billerbeck); _Ad Att._ IV. 4, p. 2. [85] _Ep._ cvi. (_ibid._); _Ad Att._ IV. 5. [86] _Ep._ cxi. (_ibid._); _Ad Att._ IV. 8. [87] This cut is given in _Antiquitatum et Annalium Trevirensium libri_ XXV. Auctoribus RR. PP. Soc. Jesu P. Christophoro Browero, et P. Jacobo Masenio. 2 v. fol. Leodii, 1670. It is headed: Schema voluminum in bibliothecam (sic) ordine olim digestorum Noviomagi in loco Castrorum Constantini M. hodiedum in lapide reperto excisum. See also C. G. Schwarz, _De Ornamentis Librorum_, 4to, Lips. 1756, pp. 86, 172, 231, and Tab. II., fig. 4. I learnt this reference from Sir E. M. Thompson's _Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography_, ed. 2, 1894, p. 57, _note_. The Director of the Museum at Treves informs me that all the antiquities discovered at Neumagen were destroyed in the seventeenth century. [88] See above, p. 11. [89] _Ibid._, p. 12. [90] _Epigrams_, Lib. IX. _Introduction_. [91] The whole relief is figured in Seyffert, _Dictionary of Classical Antiquities_, ed. Nettleship and Sandys, p. 649. [92] _De Architectura_, Lib. VII, Pref. [Aristophanes] e certis amiariis infinita volumina eduxit. [93] _Digesta Justiniani Augusti_, ed. Mommsen. 8vo. Berlin, 1870. Vol. II. p. 88. Book XXXII. 52. [94] This is the date of the _Columna cochlis_. Middleton's Rome, II. 24 note. [95] Nibby, _Roma Antica_, 8vo. Roma, 1839, p. 188. [96] _Epist._ II. 17. 8. Parieti eius [cubiculi mei] in bibliothecae speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed lectitandos capit.