| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 35.22 | Plin. Nat. 35.23 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 35.24 |
Calcined with an equal proportion of rubrica, sandarach forms sandyx; [Note] although I perceive that Virgil, in the following line, [Note] has taken sandyx to be a plant— "Sandyx itself shall clothe the feeding lambs."
The price of sandyx [Note] is one half that of sandarach; these two colours being the heaviest of all in weight.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 35.22 | Plin. Nat. 35.23 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 35.24 |
