[2150]. Theoph. de Lapid. § 52. Florent. ap. Geopon. x. 90. 1. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 14. Salmas. ad Solin. p. 1156.

[2151]. Dapper, Description des Iles de l’Archipel. p. 245. In the island of Cea there were regular pits whence the best reddle was obtained. That found in iron mines was esteemed inferior. Theoph. de Lapid. § 52.

[2152]. Cf. Busbeq. Epist. iii. p. 214, seq.

[2153]. Διφρυγὲς, Dioscor. v. 120.

[2154]. Cf. Iorio, Storia del Commercio, t. iv. l. ii. c. vi. p. 249. Meurs. Cypr. ii. 2. p. 84.

[2155]. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 22.

[2156]. Dioscor. v. 84.

[2157]. Χαλκῖτις. Foës. Œconom. Hippocrat. p. 405. Aristot. Hist. Animal. v. 19.

[2158]. Μίσυ. Dioscor. v. 117. Plin. Nat. Hist, xxxiv. 31. Oribas. Collect. l. xiii.

[2159]. Dioscor. v. 119.