[3231] Called “melancoryphi” in Chapter [33].
[3232] Ajasson thinks that the reading should be “Aeizoe,” from the Greek ἀειζώη, “long lived.”
[3233] “Shining stone,” apparently.
[3234] See Chapter [33] of this Book.
[3235] The reading is doubtful.
[3236] See B. xxxiii. c. [2]: where a fossil Chrysocolla is also mentioned.
[3237] See B. xi. c. 36, and B. xxxiii. c. [21].
[3238] “Gem of Aphrodite” or “Venus.” Thought by Dalechamps and Hardouin to have been a kind of agate.
[3239] “Which never grows cold.”
[3240] A kind of Onyx, Dalechamps thinks.