45) to 100,023: the former seems too little for an opulent city, the latter too much for any private sideboard.] [Footnote 33: The learned Arbuthnot (Tables of Ancient Coins, &c.

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153) has observed with humor, and I believe with truth, that Augustus had neither glass to his windows, nor a shirt to his back.

Under the lower empire, the use of linen and glass became somewhat more common.

* Note: The discovery of glass in such common use at Pompeii, spoils the argument of Arbuthnot.

See Sir W.Gell.Pompeiana, 2d ser.p.