Latin Texts & Translations

There is also another method of classifying stones; according to the resemblance which they bear to various other objects. Thus, for example, the different parts of the body give the following names to stones:—Hepatitis ^[Note] is so called from the liver; and steatitis ^[Note] from its resemblance to the fat of various animals. Adadunephros, adaduophthalmos, and adadudactylos, mean "kidney of Adad," "eye of Adad," and "finger of Adad," a god ^[Note] of the Syrians so called. Triophthalmos ^[Note] is a stone found in conjunction with onyx, which resembles three human eyes at once.