Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Scobis

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Sawdust, which was used by the Romans for sprinkling upon the floor of rooms, especially of dining-rooms, as on the terrasses of modern French cafés and the floors of bar-rooms ( Hor. Sat. ii. 4, 81; Juv.xiv. 67). In the houses of the wealthy, this sawdust was often coloured red or a bright yellow (Petron. 68). Elagabalus used gold-dust for the same purpose (Lamprid. Elagab. 31). The name is also used of filings of metals (cf. Blümner, Technologie, iv. 256).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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