2nd February 2010, 12:39 PM
I know. There's the great quote from the Vindolanda tablets, about a father wishing he'd cut his daughter's ear lobes off as she cost him a fortune in jewellery. I'll see if I can find it, but no mention anywhere of what the Latin for bead is. I've had a surf in dictionaries, none of the online Latin ones have anything for bead or perle or perlen. Still, somewhere, there's someone who has written about stringing things.
I'm amazed that neither Pliny had anything, the old gossips.
I'm amazed that neither Pliny had anything, the old gossips.