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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 61 61 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 11 11 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares (ed. L. C. Purser) 8 8 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 6 6 Browse Search
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) 3 3 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 2 2 Browse Search
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition. 2 2 Browse Search
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Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) 2 2 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
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sbestus in the time of Pliny. To give an idea of the bulky nature of papyrus manuscripts it may be mentioned that Ovid's Metamorphoses occupied fifteen rolls. The abundance of papyrus in Egypt, the chief source of its production, the magnificence of the kings of that country, and the concourse of learned men who resorted thither, caused it to become the seat of those immense libraries which we read of as having perished in the flames during the siege of Alexandria by Julius Caesar, B. C. 47, under Theodosius about A. D. 388, and finally under Omar the Saracen about A. D. 639. During this interval, however, the Alexandrian library had been increased by the addition of that of Eumenes, king of Pergamos, which had been presented by Marc Antony to Cleopatra. The volumes composing this latter were written largely on parchment, and, according to the old story, this material was invented or discovered by Eumenes, about 200 B. C., in consequence of a prohibition laid on the exportati