Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
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The other colour is that known as "anularian [Note] white;" being used for giving a brilliant whiteness to the figures of females. [Note] This, too, is prepared from a kind of chalk, combined with the glassy paste which the lower classes wear in their rings: [Note] hence it is, that it has the name "anulare."
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