Assĭus, a, um, adj.,
of or pertaining to the city Assus (in Troas): lapis, a kind of limestone , which was used for coffins , and in which the body was soon consumed : In Asso Troadis sarcophagus lapis fissili venā scinditur. Corpora defunctorum condita in eo absumi constat intra XL. dies exceptis dentibus,