Hesych. v. ἐνώπια. Casaub. ad Theoph. Char. p. 380. Compare the whole character of the “Vain Man,” pp. 57–59. Etym. Mag. 346. 10. Footnote 284: Athen. v. 25. Hesych. v. αυλεία. Suid. in v. t. i. p. 491. d. Footnote 285: “The doors (at Tanjeers) are richly carved, and placed in arches shaped like an ace of spades, a form so completely oriental, that there is no mistaking its origin; these, when they opened on the verandah, were further ornamented with curtains of rich crimson silk.”—Napier, Excursions along the Shores of the Mediterranean, i. p. 264. Footnote 286: Hesych. v. γυναικωνίτις. ----- The apartments of palaces displayed, even in very early times, the taste of the Greeks for splendour and magnificence. The walls were covered with wainscoting inlaid with gold and ivory, as we still find in the East whole chambers lined with mother-of-pearl.[287] At first, the gold was laid on in thin plates, which, in process of time, led to the idea of gilding.[288] Even Phocion, who affected great simplicity and plainness, had the walls of his house adorned with laminæ of copper,[289] probably in the same style as that subterraneous chamber discovered, during the last century, in the excavations made at Rome. It appears, too, that, occasionally, the walls of the apartments at Athens, as at Herculaneum and Pompeii were decorated with paintings in bright colours,[290] probably in the same style, though as much superior in beauty and delicacy of execution, as art, in the age of Pericles, was superior to art in the days of Nero. Still the paintings discovered in the excavated Italian cities,—sometimes[291] grotesque and extravagant, as where we behold the pigmies making war upon the cranes, winged geniuses at work in a carpenter’s or shoemaker’s shop, or an ass laden with hampers of wine, rushing forward to engage a crocodile, whilst his master pulls him back by the tail—sometimes rural and elegant, consisting of a series of wild landscapes, mountains dotted with cottages, sea-shores, harbours, and baths, Nymphs and Cupids angling on the borders of lakes, beneath trees of the softest and most exquisite foliage,—may enable us to form some conception of the landscapes with which Agelarcos[292] adorned the house of Alcibiades. ----- Footnote 287: Lady Montague’s Works, ii. 234. Footnote 288: Plin. xxxiii. 18. Cf. Dion. Chrysost. t. i. p. 262. t. ii. p. 259. Pignor. de Serv. p. 214. Footnote 289: Plut. Phoc. § 18. Footnote 290: As, _minium_, Dioscor. v. 109. Footnote 291: Antich. di Ercol. t. i. tav. 34. p. 181. tav. 35. p. 187. tav. 36. p. 191. tav. 48. pp. 253, 257. t. ii. tav. 39. p. 273. Cf. Poll. x. 34. Footnote 292: Andocid. cont. Alcib. § 7. -----