DEALBATO´RES
DEALBATO´RES workmen mentioned in the Codex of
Justinian (10.64, 1; cf.
C. I. L. 4.222), appear to have been
simply whitewashers, and not, as some have supposed, workmen employed to
cover walls with a coating of white cement or stucco.
Dealbare is covering the walls with lime-wash (
calce ex aqua liquida dealbentur,
Vitr. 7.4,
3). Cicero
speaks of
columnae dealbatae (
Verr.
1.55, 145), and Palladius (1.24, 1) of
dealbati
parietes. See also Cic.
[p. 1.599]Fam.
7.29; Suet.
Galb. 9. (Blümner,
Technol. u.
Terminol. ii. p. 147; iii. p. 180.)
[
W.S]
