Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
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For polishing marble statues, as also for cutting and giving a polish to precious stones, the preference was long given to the stone of Naxos, [Note] such being the name of a kind of touchstone [Note] that is found in the Isle of Cyprus. More recently, however, the stones imported from Armenia for this purpose have displaced those of Naxos.
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