Note 451 — Chapter IV · THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
Walter Armstrong translation
See Pliny, l. c. Lucretius, iv. 1026. Plautus, Stichus, Act ii, Scene ii, v. 54. Silius Italicus, xiv. 658. Martial, Epigr. xiv. 150. I borrow these citations from the first chapter of M. Eugène Müntz’s Histoire de la Tapisserie in the Bibliothèque de l’Enseignement des Beaux-Arts.