achates

† ăchātēs, ae, m. and f., = ὁ ἀχάτης,

• the agate, so called from Achates, a river in Sicily, where it was first found, Plin. 37, 10, 55; Sil. 14, 228.

2. achātēs, ae, m. (ἀχάτης, ὁ), der Achat, achates lapis, Isid. 14, 6, 37. Solin. 5, 25: bl. achates, näml. gemma, dah. fem., Plin. 37, 5 u. 37, 139. Isid. 16, 11, 1. Vulg. exod. 28, 19 u. 39, 12. Lucan. 10, 115; vgl. Placid. gloss. (V) 43, 19 sq.

achates [ἀχάτης] 1 agate. b Jew’s stone (? marcasite). c lapis lazuli. d (?) grindstone. visibus humanis subducere fertur achates / gestantem Neckam DS VI 171; gemma[m] que dicitur ~es reponit [aquila] in nido suo Bart. Angl. XII 2; non concipiet ‥ si portet secum lapidem agatis Gad. 75. 2.  b lapidis magnetis, ametisti, lapidis agapis Gilb. VII 357v. 2; lapis Judaicus, i. agapis vel agatis SB 27.  c lapis agapis sive lazuli blavii est †colore [l. coloris] satis bonus; idem fit azurium Alph. 90.  d hec acates, A. a grynstone WW. 2 a kind of herb. nullus lapis est pretiosus qui ad consequendam suam virtutem extrinsecum cum herba sui nominis aut cum sanguine avis aut bestie non consecretur ‥ ~es cum ~e herba facit virtutem Gerv. Tilb. III 28.

1 achātēs, æ, agate ; masc., Sol. 5, 25 ; Claud. Ep. Nupt. Hon. Mar. 91 || fém., Plin. 37, 139, etc.

achates , ae. m. f.
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Achātes

(ἀχάτης). An agate, a precious stone or gem. Theophrastus describes it as a beautiful and rare stone from the river Achates in Sicily, which sold at a high price; but Pliny tells us that in his time it was no longer in esteem, it being then found in many places, of large size and diversified appearance. The ancients distinguished agates into many species, to each of which they gave a name importing its difference from the common agate, whether it were in colour, figure, or texture. Thus they called the red, haemachates, which was sprinkled with spots of jasper, or blood-red chalcedony, and now called “dotted agate.” The white they termed leucachates; the plain yellowish or wax-coloured, cerachates.