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Namque aedificatur locus uti laconicum et expolitur marmore subtiliter et levigatur. ante id fit fornacula habens in laconicum nares, et eius praefurnium magna diligentia comprimitur, ne flamma extra dissipetur. in fornace resina conlocatur. hanc autem ignis potestas urendo cogit emittere per nares intra laconicum fuliginem, quae circa parietem et camerae curvaturam adhaerescit. inde collecta partim componitur ex gummi subacta ad usum atramenti librarii, reliquum tectores glutinum admiscentes in parietibus utuntur.
Vitruvius Pollio. On Architecture. F. Krohn. Lipsiae. B.G. Teubner. 1912.
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