(“Journal des Savants,” Sept. 1887, p. 565, June 1891, p. 372; “Hildeb. et Marbod. Opera,” Col. 1637).
Bertelli quotes, at p. 96 of his “Pietro Peregrino” Memoir, four of the Latin lines, as well as those of Hildeberti, which can be translated as follows:
“The magnet stone is found amongst the Troglodites,
The same stone which India, its mother, sends;
This one is known to be of ferruginous colour
And its nature is to draw iron when near it.”
References.—“The Lapidarium of Marbodus” (with translation of the sixty-one chapters) at pp. 389–417 of “Antique Gems,” by Rev. C. W. King, London, 1866; “Gallia Christiana,” XIV. col. 746; “Hist. Lit. de la France,” Vol. X. p. 343; “La Grande Encycl.,” Vol. XXIII. p. 15; Larousse, “Dict. Univ.,” Vol. X2. p. 1126; “Biographie Générale,” Vol. XXXIII. pp. 366–367.
Marco Polo. See A.D. 1271–1295, p. [55].
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Matthæus Silvaticus. See [Silvaticus].