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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 929 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647

John Bostock translation

A powder, probably, prepared from “cæruleum.” See the end of the present Chapter, and Chapter 57 of this Book. Littré renders the words “in lomentum,” kept “in the form of powder,” without reference to the peculiar pigment known as “lomentum.”

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