Note 524 — TIN. TINNING.
William Johnston translation
The authors here quoted, corresponding to the above letters, are as follows:—
a Plinius, xxxiv. 16, p. 668.
b Cæsar De Bello Gallico, v. 12.
c Aristot. Auscult. Mirab. cap. 51, p. 100.
d Galenus De Antidot. i. 8. p. 209. ed. gr. Basil. vol. ii. p. 431.
e Plin. iv. 22. p. 630.
f Herodot. lib. iii. p. 254. edit. Wess.
g Plin. iv. 16, p. 223.
h Strabo, lib. iii. p. 219. ed. Almel.
i Strabo, lib. xv. p. 1055.
j Diodor. Sic. lib. v. p. 347. ed. Wess.
k Diod. Sic. lib. v. p. 361.
l Stephan. Byzant. v. Tartessus, p. 639.
m Dionys. Periegesis, v. 563.
n Prisciani Perieg. v. 575.
o Avienus Descript. Urbis, v. 743.
p Homeri Iliad. xviii. 612.
q Iliad. xi. 25.
r Iliad. xxiii. 561.
s Iliad. xviii. 565, 574.
t Hesiod. Scut. Herculis, v. 208.
u Aristot. Œconom. lib. ii. p. 594.
v Pollux Onomast. p. 1055.
w Pomp. Mela, iii. 6, 24, p. 275.
x Plin. xxxiii. 5, p. 621.
y Plin. xxxiv. 17, § 48, p. 669; and lib. xxxiii. § 45: Optima specula apud majores fuerant Brundisiana stanno et ære mixtis. From a similar mixture the best metallic specula are cast at present.