Note 2298 — BOOK XXXV. AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
“Desquamatur.” This is most probably the meaning of the word, though Beckmann observes “that it was undoubtedly a term of art, which cannot be further explained, because we are unacquainted with the operation to which it alludes.”—Vol II. p. 104. Bohn’s Edition.