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

Note 675 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647

John Bostock translation

“Lorum.” This word literally signifies a leather strap or thong, and Pliny is supposed by Hardouin to mean simply, that, in this latter case the strap was worn without the bulla, which was in other cases attached to it. Juvenal, Sat. v. l. 164, speaks of the “lorum” of the children of the poor.—B.

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