of the Ancients re/peeing Glafs. 1 1 J 



tranfparency and brightnefs, * it acquired a 

 name which was in all probability, originally the 

 fame. 



The word glejum implied no doubt a fhining 

 or tranfparent fubfbance ; gleiffen expreffes at pre- 

 fent in the German language, tafhine; and our 

 Engliih word to gliften is derived from it, and. 

 has nearly the fame fignification. Du Cange %. 

 fays, that fome critics were of opinion, that the 

 Viotd glejum itfclfi implied glafs rather than am- 

 ber. It is farther remarkable,, that the ancientr 

 Greeks applied the fame term (HAty.T^oi-^i || both cd 

 glafs and amber. 



The herb wherewith the Britons painted 

 their bodies, went alfo under the name of 





* Antiquis Germanis falfle gUjfum. auclores funt PUflius 

 atque Tacitus quamquam apud hunc perperam legitur 

 gkfum unico f nam ipfis Germanis fuit glefs quo vocabulo' 

 portea paulum variato 'wiglafi vitrum qnuhi id novum atqiie 

 antea inufitatum Germania; inferretnr interpretati funt ob- 

 limilitudinem quandam 



Cluvcrii Germania Antiq, L. III. Cap. 44. 

 Inde hodie fortafle vitrum glaffam appellant nam fuc-, 

 cinum vitream habct perfpicuitatem. 



Salmas. Comm. in SoHn. p. 163;. 



\ Cenfent quidam glcjfum nihil aliud efle quam quod 

 Anglo Saxones glaj^ Galli, Germani & Angli ^/rt/f' vocant. 



Du Cange- Glols Vox GlelTum.' 



tl Certe HAoixga mcntio apud Ilomerum non Ya>.3-.'. 



Salmas. Plin. Exerc. p. 773. 

 Homero & aliis antiquis nomen YaAa< notum non fuiife 

 fed pro eo H?.tr.T^of dici. Euda;i Lexicon Vox HAsxt^'o*. 

 Vol. II. 1 glnjlum. 



