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title: Excerpt-White Lead
title_greek: Ἀπόσπασμα περὶ τοῦ λευκοῦ μολύβδου
author: Zosimus of Panopolis
eul_wid: tyc-bs
eul_aid: tyc
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/zosimus-panopolis-white-lead-tyc-bs"
period: Late Antique
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Science
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Excerpt-White Lead

*Ἀπόσπασμα περὶ τοῦ λευκοῦ μολύβδου*

**Author:** Zosimus of Panopolis

**eul_wid:** `tyc-bs` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/zosimus-panopolis-white-lead-tyc-bs)

## Text

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........................................................................ δύναμις· μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐργασίαν τὸ ψιμμίον ὕδατι ὑετίῳ γλυκιζόμενον, καὶ ἐώμενον καταστῆναι· τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἀπόχεε ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὑρίσκεται πάνυ λευκότατον· καὶ ἡ λιθάργυρος ἡ κοινὴ μολύβδου ἐστὶν, θαυμαστὴν δύναμιν ἔχει, κοινωνίαν ποιούμενος τῷ ὄξει· ἡ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸ ἀσώ ματον εὑρίσκεται, ἁλμιζόμενον δὲ καὶ γλυκιζόμενον, καὶ αὐτὴ λευκοτάτη εὑρίσκεται καὶ πάνυ παρεμφαίνουσα τὸ ψιμμίθιον. Θαυμάζω δὲ καὶ τὸ σηρικὸν πῶς ἐν τῷ πυρὶ ξανθοῦται, καὶ τὸ σανδαράχην δύναμιν ἔχει θαυμαστήν.

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