Pliny the Elder and Pedanius Dioscorides, writing…

45 BCE to 99 CE

Pliny the Elder and Pedanius Dioscorides, writing in Rome the first century CE, both describe auripigmentum, a substance now thought to have been the dyestuff orpiment, As2S3, a compound of arsenic.

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