| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 33.17 | Plin. Nat. 33.18 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 33.19 |
The ceilings which, at the present day, in private houses even, we see covered with gold, were first gilded in the Capi-
tol, after the destruction of Carthage, and during the censorship of Lucius Mummius. [Note] From the ceilings this luxuriousness has been since transferred to the arched roofs of buildings, and the party-walls even, which at the present day are gilded like so many articles of plate: very different from the times when Catulus [Note] was far from being unanimously approved of for having gilded the brazen tiles of the Capitol!
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 33.17 | Plin. Nat. 33.18 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 33.19 |
