[36] Plinii Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 2.
[37] Pliny’s phrase is plumbum argentorium. But that the addition was tin, and consequently that plumbum argentorium meant tin, we have the evidence of Klaproth, who analyzed several of these bronze statues, and found them composed of copper, lead, and tin.
[38] Beitrage, vi. 89.
[39] Beitrage, vi. 118. The statue in question was known by the name of “The Statue of Püstrichs,” at Sondershausen.
[40] Ibid., p. 127.
[41] Ibid., p. 132.
[42] Ibid., p. 134.
[43] Plinii Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 11.
[44] Lib. v. c. 117.
[45] See Plinii Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 13.