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

Note 1890 — BOOK XXXV. AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.

John Bostock translation

“Burnt” ceruse. This was, in fact, one of the varieties of “minium,” red oxide of lead, our red lead. Vitruvius and Dioscorides call it “sandaraca,” differing somewhat from that of Pliny.

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