| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 33.41 | Plin. Nat. 33.42 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 33.43 |
At the present day silver is gilded almost exclusively by the agency of hydrargyros; [Note] and a similar method should always be employed in laying gold leaf upon copper. But the same fraud which ever shows itself so extremely ingenious in all departments of human industry, has devised a
plan of substituting an inferior material, as already mentioned. [Note]
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 33.41 | Plin. Nat. 33.42 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 33.43 |
