Latin Texts & Translations

We learn from L. Piso, ^[Note] that Cneius Manlius was the first who introduced brazen banquetting-couches, buffets, and tables with single feet, ^[Note] when he entered the City in triumph, in the year of Rome 567, after his conquests in Asia. We also learn from Antias, ^[Note] that the heirs of L. Crassus, the orator, sold a number of banquetting-couches adorned with brass. The

tripods, ^[Note] which were called Delphian, because they were devoted more particularly to receiving the offerings that were presented to the Delphian Apollo, were usually made of brass: also the pendant lamps, ^[Note] so much admired, which were placed in the temples, or gave their light in the form of trees loaded with fruit; such as the one, for instance, in the Temple of the Palatine Apollo, ^[Note] which Alexander the Great, at the sacking of Thebes, brought to Cyme, ^[Note] and dedicated to that god.