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Ilva (Italy) (search for this): book 8, commline 421
Strictura is a word used not unfrequently in connexion with metallurgy: but the ancients themselves seem not to have been agreed about its meaning. Serv. explains it here as terra ferri massam coacta, which apparently means the metal in the ore. In his note on 10. 174, he refers to Varro as saying of Ilva nasci quidem illic ferrum, sed in stricturam non posse cogi nisi transvectum in Populoniam, where the sense would seem to be just the contrary, the metal as separated from the ore; but the reading of the words appears to be in some doubt. This latter sense of strictura would agree with Persius 2. 66, stringere venas Ferventis massae crudo de pulvere iussit, where see Jahn. Non. twice defines the word (pp. 21, 523, 524) as meaning the sparks which are struck out from iron when beaten on the anvil, quod aut stricte emittantur, id est, celeriter, aut quod oculos sui fulgore perstringant: it may be questioned, however, whether he does not extract this interprestaion from an instance he q