achates

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

† 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.

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