BOOK XXXIV.. The Natural History of Metals.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS.

1. The ores of brass 147

2. The different kinds of copper 148

3. The Corinthian brass 149

4. The Delian brass 151

5. The Æginetan brass ib.

6. Stands for lamps 152

7. Ornaments of the temples made of brass 153

8. Couches of brass ib.

9. Which was the first statue of a god made of brass at Rome. The origin of statues, and the respect paid to them 154

10. The different kinds and forms of statues. Statues at Rome with cuirasses 155

11. In honour of whom public statues were first erected: in honour of whom they were first placed on pillars: when the rostra were first erected 156

12. In honour of what foreigners public statues were erected at Rome 159

13. The first equestrian statues publicly erected at Rome, and in honour of what females statues were publicly erected there 160

14. At what period all the statues erected by private individuals were removed from the public places ib.

15. The first statues publicly erected by foreigners 161

16. That there were statuaries in Italy also at an early period 162

17. The immoderate prices of statues 163

18. The most celebrated colossal statues in the city 164

19. An account of the most celebrated works in brass, and of the artists, 366 in number 168

20. The different kinds of copper and its combinations. Pyropus. Campanian copper 189

21. The method of preserving copper 191

22. Cadmia ib.

23. Fifteen remedies derived from cadmia. Ten medicinal effects of calcined copper 193

24. The scoria of copper 194

25. Stomoma of copper: forty-seven remedies ib.

26. Verdigris: Eighteen remedies 195

27. Hieracium 197

28. Scolex of copper: eighteen remedies ib.

29. Chalcitis: seven remedies 198

30. Sory: three remedies 199

31. Misy: thirteen remedies ib.

32. Chalcanthum, or shoemakers’ black: sixteen remedies 200

33. Pompholyx 202

34. Spodos: five remedies ib.

35. Fifteen varieties of antispodos 203

36. Smegma 204

37. Diphryx ib.

38. Particulars relative to the Servilian triens 205

39. Iron ores ib.

40. Statues of iron; chased works in iron 206

41. The different kinds of iron, and the mode of tempering it ib.

42. The metal called live iron 209

43. Methods of preventing rust ib.

44. Seven remedies derived from iron 210

45. Fourteen remedies derived from rust 211

46. Seventeen remedies derived from the scales of iron. Hygremplastrum ib.

47. The ores of lead 212

48. Stannum. Argentarium 214

49. Black lead 215

50. Fifteen remedies derived from lead 216

51. Fifteen remedies derived from the scoria of lead 218

52. Spodium of lead ib.

53. Molybdæna: fifteen remedies ib.

54. Psimithium, or ceruse; six remedies 219

55. Sandarach: eleven remedies 220

56. Arrhenicum ib.