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1 See B. xxxiii. c. 46. "Chaplet" copper.
2 "Bar" copper, or "malleable."
3 It is very improbable that this effect could be produced by the cause here assigned; but without a more detailed account of the process employed, we cannot explain the change of colour.—B.
4 πυρωπὸς, "sparkling like fire." Similar to, if not identical with, our tinsel.
5 "Cast brass."
6 See Beckmann, Hist. Inv. Vol. I. p. 415. Bohn's Edition.
7 In the former Editions the whole of the next ten lines, from this word down to "sun" is omitted. It is evident that it has been left out by accident, in consequence of the recurrence of the word "Campano." The hiatus has been supplied from the Bamberg MS., and the reading is supported by the text of Isidorus, Orig. B. xvi. c. 20, s. 9.
8 "Collectanei."
9 "Formalis."
10 "Piumbi nigri"—"black lead," literally, but not what we mean by that name.
11 The "Grecian" colour. It does not appear to have been identified, nor does it appear what it has to do with moulds.
12 "Pot" copper, or brass.
13 Beckmann is of opinion that this "plumbum argentarium" was a mixture of equal parts of tin and lead. Hist. Inv. Vol. II. p. 220. Bohn's Edition.
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