1 It had twelve beautifully made brooch pins of pure gold with which to fasten it.
2 It is a mixing bowl by Vulcan's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold.
3 My grievance is purely personal, and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house.
4 It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.
5 But when the flames of heaven had done their work, we gathered your white bones at daybreak and laid them in ointments and in pure wine.
6 On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.
7 When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns, through which there ran at all times enough pure water to wash any quantity of linen, no matter how dirty.
8 Polybus lived in Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world; he gave Menelaus two baths, both of pure silver, two tripods, and ten talents of gold; besides all this, his wife gave Helen some beautiful presents, to wit, a golden distaff, and a silver work box that ran on wheels, with a gold band round the top of it.