Note 736 — Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.
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Dr. Schliemann is assuredly singular when translating the Homeric Cyanus by ‘bronze’ (Preface to Mycenæ, p. x.). Millin (Minéralogie Homérique) holds it to be tin. The ‘Cyanus’ of Pliny (xxxvii. 38) is lapis lazuli.