One would have lingering wars with little cost; Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;

You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.

Evidently it was a deliberate choice to select from the repertory of opus sectile, often extremely figurative, only those decorative motifs that were amenable to sixteenth-century architectural classicism, like the peltae on the Farnese tables, which were still used for the seventeenth-century pavement of the Confessio of St Peter's.

The office was a construction of steel and glass.