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black colour beneath a cout of mould. Eusc-bes- 7 is the stone, 

 it is said, of which the seat was made in the Temple of 

 Hercules at Tyrus, from which the pious [only] could raise 

 themselves without difficulty. Epimelas 25 is a white gem, 

 with a black hue reflected from its surface. 



CHAP. 59. GALAXIAS. GALACTITIS, LKUCOG^A, LEUCOGRAPOITIS, 

 OK SYNNEPII1TIS. GALLAICA. GASS1XADE. GLOSSOPETRA. GOU- 

 CON I A. GONLSA. 



Galaxiav 9 by some called "galactitis," 30 is a stone that closely 

 resembles those next mentioned, but is interspersed with 

 veins of blood-red or white. Galactitis 31 is of the uniform 

 colour of milk; other names given to it are, leucogoca, 3 - leu- 

 oogrupliitis, 31 and synnephitis/ 1 and, wlien pounded in water, 

 both in taste and colour it marvellously resembles milk. This 

 stow? promotes the secretion of the milk in nursing women, it 

 is said ; in addition to which, attached to the neck of infants, it 

 produces saliva, and it dissolves when put into the mouth. 

 They say, too, that it deprives persons of their memory : it is 

 in the rivers Nilus and Acheloiis that it is produced. Some 

 persons give the name of " galactitis" to a smaragdus surrounded 

 with veins of white. Gallaica is a stone like argyrodamas, 24 

 but of a somewhat more soiled appearance ; these stones are 

 fouud in twos and threes clustered together. The people of 

 Media send us ga.ssinade, 3 * a stone like orobus in colour, and 

 sprinkled with llowers, as it were : it is found at Arbela. 

 This stone, too, conceives, 37 it is said ; a fact which it admits 

 when shaken; the conception lasting for a period of three 

 months. Glossopetra, 33 which resembles the human tongue, is 

 not engendered, it is said, in the earth, but falls from the 

 heavens during the moon's eclipse; it is considered highly ne- 

 cessary for the purposes of seleiiomancy. 39 To render all this 



r> " Stone of the religious." 



** " Black on the surface." This is the. case, Ajasson remarks, \vith 

 many stones of the class known as " Cat's eye." 



*" " Galaxy stone." Ajasson thinks that this may possibly have been an 

 Opal, or a dead white Topaz, traversed by lines of other colours. 



3 " "Milk stone." 3l I'rohably milk-whjte Quartz, Ajasson thinks. 



3i " White earth." 33 "White-Streaked stone." 3 " Clouded." 



35 See. Chapter .54 of this Hook. 36 An Eastern name, probably. 



37 A Ueodes or Actiles, probably. See B. xxxvi. c. 39, and Chapter 66 

 of tins Hook, Note 02. 3S "Tongue of stone." 



:: ' Divination from the appearance of the moon. 



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