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Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n articleof export. From the lava millstoneswere made for both grain mills andoil mills, which were apparently al-ready in extensive use in the time ofCato the Elder; he mentions them in his treatise on farming. In Pompeii itself the millstones ofthe oldest period are of lava from Vesuvius; later it was foundthat the lava of Rocca Monfina was better adapted for the pur-pose, and millstones of that material were preferred. Smallhand-mills of the lava from Vesuvius were in use at Pompeii downto 79; but the larger millstones of this material found in thebakeries had been put one side. In shape and finish the millsof local make were superior to the more carelessly worked stonesfrom Rocca Monfina; the preference for the latter was due tothe fact that they contained numerous crystals of leucite, whichbroke off as the mill wore away, and so kept the grinding surfacesalways rough. Millstones from Rocca Monfina may be seen atdifferent places in Rome, as in the Museum of the Baths ofDiocletian.
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Fig- 5- -An amphora fromBoscoreale. 16 POMPEII To the sources of revenue which contributed to the pros-perity of Pompeii we may add the presence of wealthy Romans,who, attracted by the delightful climate, built country seats inthe vicinity. Among them was Cicero, who often speaks of hisPompeian villa (Pompeianum). That the imperial family also hada villa here is inferred from a curious accident. We read thatDrusus, the young son of the Emperor Claudius, a few daysafter his betrothal to the daughter of Sejanus, was choked todeath at Pompeii by a pear which he had thrown up into the airand caught in his mouth. These country seats, no doubt, layon the high ground back of Pompeii, toward Vesuvius; theyprobably faced the sea. But the identification of a villa exca-vated in the last century, and then filled up again, as the villa ofCicero, is whollv without foundation. Salve lucrum, Welcome, Gain! Such is the inscriptionwhich a Pompeian placed in the mosaic floor of his house.Lucrum gaudium

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