[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.