Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

184 EXPLANATION OF

There was the hieratica or sacra, the
augusta, the liviana, the amphitheatrica, the
famia, the saitica, the regia, and the macro-
colum, and common waste paper, or am-
phoretica.

The quantity must have been very much
like what would be found in a great city of
our own times; and Pliny left one hundred
and sixty volumes, opisthographos et minu-
tissime scriptos, or written very minutely
on both sides, to his nephew.

MSS. of papyrus were capable of resist-
ing the attacks of time and worms longer
than we might imagine. The papers of Ti-
berius and Caius Gracchus were kept by
Pomponius Secundus, Vates,and were nearly
200 years old when seen by Pliny. The
same author says he had often seen the mo-
numenta, or books of Cicero, Virgil, and
Augustus. Galen, speaking of MSS. of
Hippocrates, considers 300 years as a vast
antiquity. St. Jerome mentions that, in 100
years, the libraries of Origen and Pamphilus,
at Csesarea, were already nearly worn out and
corrupted; but the Bishop of St. David's