[3421] “Liver stone.” Heavy spar, a sulphate of barytes, is sometimes called Hepatite.
[3422] “Fat stone.” Saponite or soapstone, a silicate of magnesia, is also known as Steatite.
[3423] An ancient king of Syria, worshipped by the people of that country and the inhabitants of Phrygia. According to Macrobius, the Assyrians worshipped Jupiter and the Sun under this name.
[3424] “Three-eye stone.” Some kind of Cat’s eye chalcedony, probably.
[3425] “Crab stone.”
[3426] “Viper-stone.”
[3427] “Scorpion stone.”
[3428] See B. ix. c. 29, B. xl. c. 61, and B. xxxii. c. [53]. This was perhaps the same stone as the “Synodontitis” of Chapter [67].
[3429] Which was called τριγλὰ, in Greek.
[3430] “Ant stone.” Possibly a kind of amber.