Philinus
Theon, taking up the conversation, said, We have heard another more artful account, how a worker in bronze at Corinth, when he had come upon a hoard containing much gold, fearing detection, broke it off a little at a time and stealthily mixed it with his bronze, which thus acquired a wondrous composition. He sold it for a goodly price since it was very highly esteemed for its colour and beauty. However, both this story and that are fiction, but there was apparently some process of combination and preparation; for even now they alloy gold with silverMaking the ancient electrum, which was often used for coinage, plate, and similar purposes. and produce a peculiar and extraordinary, and, to my eyes, a sickly paleness and an unlovely perversion.
What do you think, then, said Diogenianus, has been the cause of the colour of the bronze here?
