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the othep is dry and pure. and divided in a delicate 

 tracery of veins. Its properties are the same as 

 mentioned above, but more active. Accordingly 

 it is used as an ingredient in cauteries and depilatories. 

 It also removes overgrowths of flcsh on to the nails, 

 and pimples in the nostrils and swellings of the anus 

 and all excrescences. To increase its efficacy it is 

 heated in a new earthenware pot till it changes its 



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also in the .sketch in low relief on a marble throne now at 

 Broomhall. Other copies of Critius' and Xesiotes' work such 

 as that on a coin of Cyzicus c. 420 b.c, those on Athena's 

 shield depicted on three Attic amphorae of c. 400 B.c. (or a 

 later date), and that on an Athenian tetradrachm of c. 400 b.c, 

 are probably imitations raade from memory. C. Seltman's 

 opinion that the Broomhall relief suggests a copy of Antenor's 

 group is doubtfu! (Seltman, Journ. of Hellen. Stiid., LXVII 

 (1947), 22-27). The group made by Praxiteles (PHny, XXXIV. 

 70) was no doubt a fresh creation of his own, unless there is 

 some blunder on Pliny's part. 



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