pumice quotes

   Cui dono lepidum novum libellum arida modo pumice expolitum? Corneli, tibi. Who shall I give my nice new little book to, my little book polished with dry pumice? To you, Cornelius.

-Catiline full name Lucius Sergius Catilina
Dedication to Cornelius Nepos, the biographer. Carmina, no.1.

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.29^36.