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Naxium, Emery

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202                NATURAL HISTORY OF GEMS.
Artibus Romanorum,' probably in the seventh century, in a barbarous and often unintelligible jargon. However, if wo choose to believe his assertion,
" Nil tibi scribo quidem quod non prius esse probassum,"
the following recipe would decide the question :—" Collect fat earth-worms as turned up by the plough, vinegar, and the hot blood out of a big he-goat fed on strengthening herbs ; mix all together, and so anoint the bright shining bowl, and then engrave upon it with fragments of the hard stone called Pyrites." This was the method, as he prefaces, directed by the art. (See Vitrum.)
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