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 DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 341 that not only (according to the old apologue) do they labour under the dis- advantage of a few bricks, brought to shew what the house is like, but they are brought from that part of the house to which avowedly the least atten- tion has been paid, and apparently (if one may judge by the alterations in the articles " Castra," " Cliiridota," and " Bracca^,") less attention in the second edition than in the first. At least however they will fiu-nish good models for the mode of treating the same subjects, if any adventurous stu- dent of future years should be incited to attempt a similar " opus desidera- tum" in the field of medieval anticpiities. We add one or two extracts with their accompanying illustrations. "Armillaj. These seem to have been frequently made without having their ends joined, they were then curved so as to require when put on to be slightly expanded by having their ends drawn apart from one another, and Ladiea with bracelets, from a Greek vase. according to their length they went once or twice or thrice round the arm, or even a greater number of times. The annexed cut is from Sir W. Hamilton's great work on Greek vases. '' The following cuts exhibit Roman bracelets : the first figure represents a gold bracelet dis- covered at Rome on the Pala- tine mount : the second a gold bracelet found in Britain and preserved in the British Mu- seum. It appears to.be made of two gold wires twisted together, and the mode of fastening it upon the arm by a clasp is worthy of observation. ROMAN ARMILt,.E. 1. Found at Rome. Vi. In the British Museum. VOL. v.