Chap, 73.] CfssiTis. 459 



CHAP. 72. PEECIOUS STONES WHICH DEKIYE THEIR NAMES FROM 



ANIMALS. CAKCINIAS. ECHITIS. SCOKPITIS. SCAKITIS. TKI- 

 GLITIS. J2G0PHTHALM0S. HYOPHTHALMOS. GEKANITIS. HIERA- 

 CITIS. AETITIS. MTKMECITIS. CANTHARIAS. LYCOPHTHALMOS, 

 TAOS. TIMICTONIA. 



Other stones, again, derive their names from various animals. 

 Carcinias''^ is so called from the colour of the sea-crab ; echitis," 

 from the colour of the viper ; scorpitis/^ from either the colour 

 or the shape of the scorpion ; scaritis, from the fish called 

 scarus ;^^ triglitis, from the sur-mullet ;** segophthalmos, from 

 the eye of the goat ; hyophthalmos, from the eye of the swine ; 

 geranitis, from the neck of the crane; hieracitis, from the 

 neck of the hawk ; and aetitis, from the colour of the white- 

 tailed eagle. Myrmecitis*^ presents the appearance of an ant 

 crawling within, and cantharias,*^ of a scarabaeus. Lycoph- 

 thalmos*' is a stone of four different colours ; on the exterior 

 it is ruddy and blood-red, and within it is black, surrounded 

 with a line of white, closely resembling the eye of the wolf in 

 every respect. Taos** is a stone with colours like those of the 

 peacock. Timictonia, I find, is the name of a stone, like the 

 asp in colour. 



CHAP. 73. PRECIOUS STONES WHICH DERIVE THEIR NAMES FROM 



OTHER OBJECTS. HAMMOCHRTSOS. CENCHRITIS. DKYITIS. CIS- 

 SITIS. NARCISSITIS. CYAMIAS. PYREN. PHCENICITIS. CHA- 

 LAZIAS. PYRITIS. POLYZONOS. ASTRAP^A. PHLOGITIS. AN- 

 THRACITIS. ENHYGROS. POLYTHRIX. LEONTIOS. PARDALIOS. 

 DROSOLITHOS. MELICHRUS. MELICHLOROS. CROCIAS. POLIAS. 

 SPAETOPOLIAS. RHODITIS. CHALCITIS. SYCITIS. BOSTRYCHITIS. 

 CHERNITIS. ANANCITIS. SYNOCHITIS. DENDRITIS. 



Hammochrysos*^ resembles sand in appearance, but sand 

 mixed with gold. Cenchritis^ has all the appearance of grains 

 of millet scattered here and there. Dryitis^^ resembles the 

 trunk of a tree, and burns like wood. Cissitis,*^^ upon a white, 



*o *' Crab stone." *i " Viper-stone." ^2 « gcorpion stone." 



^^ See B. ix. c. 29, B. xi. c. 61, and B. xxxii. c. 53. This was perhaps 

 the same stone as the " Synodontitis" of Chapter 67. 



^* Which was called rptyXd, in Greek. 



*= " Ant stone." Possibly a kind of amber. ^^ « Beetle stone." 



4^ "Wolfs eye." 48 " Peacock stone." 



*9 " Golden sand." This may possibly have been Aventurine quartz. 



50 " Millet stone." 5i «' 0^^ stone." Fossil coal, perhaps. 



« " Ivy stone." 



