Chapter XXIX.—Display of Different Eggs.
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.
[29] Ὠὰ δὲ [δύο] διάφορα ἐπιδείκνυνται τὸν τρόπον τόνδε: κορυφὴν τρυπήσας ἐξ ἑκατέρων καὶ τὸ λευκὸν ὑπεξαγαγών, αὖθις βάψας ἔμβαλε τῷ μὲν τῆς Σινωπίδος, τῷ δὲ τοῦ γραφικοῦ μέλανος: ἀπόφρασσε δὲ τὰς τρυμαλιὰς ξέσματι τῶν ὠῶν λείῳ, μετ' ὀποῦ συκῆς ἐμπλάσας.