CHAP. 64.—NASAMONITIS. NEBRITIS. NIPPARENE.
Nasamonitis is a blood-red stone, marked with black veins. Nebritis, a stone sacred to Father Liber,[3375] has received its name from its resemblance to a nebris.[3376] There is also another stone of this kind, that is black. Nipparene[3377] bears the name of a city and people of Persia, and resembles the teeth of the hippopotamus.