Note 1230 — BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.
John Bostock translation
It was named “Marian,” after the celebrated Marius, and “Corduban,” from the place whence it was procured; probably the mountains near Corduba, in Spain, well known as the birth-place of the two Senecas and of Lucan.—B. See B. iii. c. 3, and B. xix. c. 43.