22/31 438.] [Footnote 37: The or coaches of the romans, were often of solid silver, curiously carved and engraved; and the trappings of the mules, or horses, were embossed with gold. This magnificence continued from the reign of Nero to that of Honorius; and the Appian way was covered with the splendid equipages of the nobles, who came out to meet St.Melania, when she returned to Rome, six years before the Gothic siege, (Seneca, epist.lxxxvii.Plin.Hist.Natur. |