Dust

Roman religion

• Dust appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats dust among dry motes and earthy powders of natural-history speech. A named dust in that encyclopedia, not sand as glassmaking substrate already walked and not a desert landform dump alone.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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• Dust is historically related to Ochre.

  In Twining's Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, Dust sits with Ochre in pigment speech — named together on the working page.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Dust is historically related to Lead.

  In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, some rub bricks and sift the dust into beech ashes so that kind of dust will not allow the hearth-lead to absorb gold or silver by eating away the cupels.

  from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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• Dust is historically related to Charcoal.

  In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, cupels made from fat ashes stay weak when they still hold charcoal dust, sand, and pebbles, so water is poured on the ashes and the floating charcoal dust is skimmed before the ashes are dried and sifted for cupels.

  from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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• Indigo is historically related to Dust.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, eastern mourners appear with hair disordered, heads covered with dust, and faces daubed with indigo or rubbed with mud while they howl beside the dead.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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