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

Note 1403 — BOOK XXXIV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.

John Bostock translation

“Talo incessentem.” “Gesner (Chrestom. Plin.) has strangely explained these words as intimating a person in the act of kicking another. He seems to confound the words talus and calx.”—Sillig, Dict. Ancient Artists.

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