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

Note 965 — BOOK XXXIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.647

John Bostock translation

Ajasson thinks that this is not to be understood literally, but that Pliny’s meaning is, that mercury is a universal dissolvent.

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