Note 3 — ENCAUSTIC: OR, Method of Painting In the Manner of the Ancients.
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Pliny is an evidence for this my opinion; for after having said, lib. xxxv. ch. 4. Nicias scripsit se inussisse, he says, tali enim usus est verbo. Which words seem clearly to indite that Pliny thought it equivocal, or contrary to its proper signification.