[3371] “Wart stone.”

[3372] “Myrtle stone.”

[3373] “White in the middle.” This and the next seem to have been general names for stones of a particular appearance.

[3374] “Black in the middle.”

[3375] Bacchus.

[3376] A Greek word, signifying the skin of a fawn or deer, as worn by the Bacchanals in the celebration of their orgies. Ajasson is of opinion that this was a mottled quartz or agate, similar to those mentioned as resembling the spots of the lion, in Chapter [54], the Leontios and Pardalios of Chapter [73].

[3377] This reading is doubtful.

[3378] “Shower stone,” apparently.

[3379] From “Notus,” the south wind, which usually brought rain.

[3380] See Chapters [48] and [51].