[2373]. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 47.

[2374]. Id. xxxvi. 45.

[2375]. Dioscor. v. 119.

[2376]. Id. v. 109.

[2377]. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxvi. 29.

[2378]. Sometimes, however, the mineral would appear to have been found in a natural state: κιννάβαρι ... εὑρίσκεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰβήρων ὁμοῦ τῷ χρυσῷ λέγεται. Pausan. viii. 39. 6.

[2379]. Theoph. de Lapid. § 58. D. J. P. Canàls y Martì, cap. vi.

[2380]. Cf. Diodor. Sicul. v. 36, seq. t. i. p. 359. Wesseling. Iorio, Storia del Commercio, t. v. 1. ii. c. vii. seq. p. 254, sqq.

[2381]. Καταφέρουσι δὲ οἱ ποταμοὶ καὶ οἱ χείμαρῥοι τὴν χρυσίτην ἄμμον, πολλαχοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄνυδροις τόποις οὖσαν, κ. τ. λ. Strab. iii. t. i. p. 216. Casaub. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 4.

[2382]. Cf. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxiii. 31.