Haec vero multis locis, ut etiam in Italia, invenitur; sed quae fuerat optima, attica, ideo nunc non habetur, quod Athenis argentifodinae cum habuerunt familias, tunc specus sub terra fodiebantur ad argentum inveniendum.
This is found in many places, as also in Italy. What used to be the best, the Attic, is not available now, for the following reason. When the silver mines at Athens were worked, shafts were dug underground to find silver;
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