Hippolytus of Rome
Display of Different Eggs.
Refutation of All Heresies — translated by ANF editors
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Chapter XXIX.—Display of Different Eggs.
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But different eggs they display after this manner. Perforating the top at both ends, and extracting the white, (and) having again dipped it, throw in some minium and some writing ink. Close, however, the openings with refined scrapings of the eggs, smearing them with fig-juice.
Translated by ANF editors. Edition ccel.anf05.iii-iii.en.