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A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARV. 



Lapis calamiaris', emachites^ quo 

 uel mac-nes ^ et guit idem. 



Xiapis magnetis * inuenitur in India 

 in litore maris occeani, [serdene 

 S idem. Respice in eracles et in 

 magnes.] 



Lapis lincis" dicunt quidem quod 

 fit de urina lincis tempore petu- 

 lancis, qui induratur et transit in 

 lo lapideni. 



I. calaminabis. emachithes. 2. giro. 



8. lyncis. petulancie. n. armenis. 



20. quod. 



Lapis armenicus ^ a regione illa sic 

 nominatus est. 



Lapis agapis '^ siue lazuli ^ blauii est 

 colore satis bonus idem fit azu- 

 rium^. 15 



Lapis pirites ^" lapis est a quo per 

 alisionem calibis uel alterius duri 

 corporis euolat ignis, sed G. in 

 epistolis ad Glauconem exponit 

 lapis pirites, i. lapis miluaris", quem 20 



3. Yndia. 

 13, lapis lazuli. 



4. littore. 

 14. coloris. 



7. quidam. 

 inde fit. 



' Sim. Jan. ' Lapis calaminaris supra in cadimia, et infra in ponfolinx et in tutia.' Cotgrave, 

 ' Calaminaire, pierre calaminaire, a yellowish Minerall, or stone, whereby copper is turned into 

 brassc.' ib. ' Calamite, the Adamant, Loadstone or Magnes stone ; also a kind of Cadmia, or the 

 stuffe that cleavesunto the yron rods wherwith melting copperis stirred.' Information on precious 

 stones will befoimdinTheNatural Hisloryof Gemsor Decorative Stones, byC.W.King,Lond.i867. 

 ^ Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 25. 3, ' Hoematites magnes sanguinei coloris.' Cf. Galen (ed. Kiihn), vol. xii. 

 p. 204. ^ -A-Pp. ' Lapis magnetis, i. gyro uel calaminaris.' Renzi, Coll. Salernit. iii. 296, ' Lapis 



magnetis et calaminaris et guir idem.' * fj.ayvrjTTjs AiOos, Diosc. v. 147. ^ App. ' Lapis lyncis 



fit de urina lupi ceruini.' Bart. p. 27, ' Lapis lincis dicunt quidam quod fit de urina lincis tempore 

 petulantise, quse induratur in lapidem.' Matth. Silv. c. ccccxliv, ' Lapis linceis, Evax, fit de urina 

 lupi ceruarum micta et in montibus coagulata.' Diosc. ii. 100, t6 Se ttjs Xvyyos, 6 5^ \vyyovptov 

 KaXeiTai, afi.a tS) e^ovprjOrjvai MOovaOai TrciriaTevTai. Cf. MS. Sloane 282, ' Lapis lincis comej) of 

 ]>c urjTie of a wolf ypissed, and on ])e hylles and munteynes crudded.' Cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxvii. 

 11,4, and viii. 57, 2. Evax is^ said to have been a king of Arabia, and to have written a book on 

 gems. There is a prose work on the names of gems, professing to be by him (Bodl. MS. Hatton, 

 formerly 100, now 76), while that in verse (the Lapidarium quoted by Vincent of Beauvais) is 

 really the work of Marbodus or Marbodeus of Rennes, who died in 11 23 (see Fabricius, Bibl. 

 Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 154, 155). See Marbodei Dactylotheca, 8. Basle, 1555. Theophrastus, De 

 Lapid. c. 52. ^ Bart. p. 27, ' Lapis armenicns dicitur aregione illa.' 'Apfitviov, Diosc. v. 105. 



' De Laet, de Gemmis, Lugd. Bat. 1647, P- ^95'' Agapis lapis, nomen corruptum est ex Achate.' 

 * Perhaps the Kvav6s of Diosc. v. 106. ^ Fr. azur, corrupted from Zazwr through Vazur, 



the name being derived from Lajwurd, where the lapis lazuli is found (cf. Skeat's Dict. sub azure). 

 '" Sim. Jan. ' Lapis pirites apud Dya. et Gali. in Epistola ad Glauconem est marchasita.' irvpiTrjs 

 A6os, Diosc. V. 142. Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 30. 2, 'Clavo vel altero lapide percussi scintillas 

 edunt.' Galen (ed. Kiihn), vol. xii. p. 199. " With milvaris compare Plin. Hist. Nat. 



xxxvi. 30. 1, ' Molarem quidam pyriten vocant, quoniam sit plurimus ignis illi.' Cf Theophrastus, 

 De Lapid. c. 19 and 40. 



