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scytanum

scytanum · n

a means to facilitate the taking of colors

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What it meant

scytānum — Lewis & Short

scytānum, i, n.,

I a means to facilitate the taking of colors, a mordant, Plin. 33, 5, 26, § 88; v. Sillig ad h. l. (al. scytatum).

Where it came from

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