The most celebrated are the British Museum in London; the
Louvre at Paris; the Vatican at Rome, the Museum of Florence; that of
St. Petersburg; and those of Dresden, Vienna, Munich, and Berlin.
A walking museum.
So Longinus, author of a work on The Sublime, was called.
(A.D. 213-273.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
