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Coriarius

（βυρσεύς, δερματομαλάκτης). A tanner. The tanners formed a guild at Rome distinct from the shoemakers. See Plut. Numa, 17.

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

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