The Refutation of All Heresies: Book IV. 29Display of Different Eggs.

Hippolytus · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume V: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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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.