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ātrāmentum , i, n. ater,
I.any black liquid: “sepiae,Cic. N D. 2, 50, 127.
I. Writing-ink, ink; in Vitr. 7, 10, and Plin. 27, 7, 28, § 52, called atramentum librarium: “calamo et atramento temperato,Cic. ad Q. Fr. 2, 15, 6: “per atramentum et calamum scribere,Vulg. 3 Joan. 13; Petr. 102, 13; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 236; Vulg. Jer. 36, 18; ib. 2 Joan. 12.—
II. A black pigment or color, Vitr. 7, 10; 7, 4; Plin. 35, 6, 25, § 41; also a fine, dark varnish, lacquer, id. 35, 10, 36, § 97: Indicum, India or China ink, id. 35, 6, 25, § 43.—
III. A blacking for coloring leather: “atramentum sutorium,Plin. 34, 12, 32, § 123; Cic. Fam. 9, 21 fin.
IV. In comic language: Sc. Unā operā ebur atramento candefacere postulas. Phil. Lepide dictum de atramento atque ebore, i. e. you require something impossible, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 102.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.21
    • New Testament, 2 John, 1.12
    • New Testament, 3 John, 1.13
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 1.3
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 36.18
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 7.10
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 7.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.52
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.43
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.41
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