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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan). Search the whole document.
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Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Sinope (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Cyclades (Greece) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Melos (Greece) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Pontus (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Egypt (Egypt) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Paraetonium (Egypt) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Italy (Italy) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
CHAPTER VII: NATURAL COLOURSAs for colours, some are natural products found in fixed places, and dug up there, while others are artificial compounds of different substances treated and mixed in proper proportions so as to be equally serviceable. 1. We shall first set forth the natural colours that are dug up as such, like yellow ochre, which is termed w)/xra in Greek. This is found in many places, including Italy, but Attic, which was the best, is not now to be had because in the times when there were slaves in the Athenian silver mines, they would dig galleries underground in order to find the silver. Whenever a vein of ochre was found there, they would follow it up like silver, and so the ancients had a fine supply of it to use in the polished finishings of their stucco work.
2. Red earths are found in abundance in many places, but the best in only a few, for instance at Sinope in Pontus, in Egypt, in the Balearic islands of Spain, as well as in Lemnos, an island the enjoyment of
Spain (Spain) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7
Smyrna (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 7