Note 358 — Chapter VI
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It was natural that the Phoceans should have adopted the art, and given a name to it, as was their wont, from their own language. The resemblance is too close to be accidental with “Piazza.” Piso, in Spanish, is to stamp: it is also the floor of a house, formerly made by ramming down, just as the walls were—Pistor in Latin. Their bread was better kneaded than ours; so piston, pestle, &c.