Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Brattea

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(not bractea: see Lachmann on Lucret. iv. 727). A finely-beaten-out plate of metal, especially of gold. Thicker plates were called laminae. The gold-beater is styled brattearius or bratteator. These plates were used for adorning statues, furniture, walls and ceilings, and garments which were then called vestes auratae or sigillatae. Pliny ( Pliny H. N. xxxiii. 61) says that from an ounce of gold, 750 plates, each four fingers square, could be beaten.

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

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