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1 A Greek word, signifying "ashes," or the residuum after combustion.—B.
2 From the corresponding passage in Dioscorides, there is some doubt whether the account of this process here given is correct.—B.
3 So called from Laurium, a district in Attica, in which there were silver mines. See Pausanias, B. i.—B.
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