BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
with analogy to Vespasian's library in Rome as well as to the later libraries.
Six other Italian public libraries are mentioned by Cagnat, including the one at Como founded by Piny and costing him 1,100,000 sesterces, one in the temple of Hercules at Tiber and one adorned with statutes, as well as books, which was bequeathed to Volsinium.
The private libraries of Rome were on a great scale and many of them were "public to friends." Among the more famous ones are those of Cicero, Vergil, Perseus and Lucullus. Varro too who collected for Caesar's proposed public library and wrote a treatise on library economy had a famous library of his own. Some of these private libraries reached 30,000 rolls or even 62,000. The library which Trimalchio claimed to have was a double one—Greek and Latin, as probably many private ones. Modern excavation is showing interest-
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