adamantinus

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

ădămantĭnus, a, um, adj., = ἀδαμάντινος,

hard as steel , etc., adamantine : saxa, Lucr. 2, 447: duritia, Plin. 37, 11, 73, 189. —Hence poet., extremely hard , inflexible , invincible : clavi, Hor. C. 3, 24, 5: tunica, id. ib. 1, 6, 13: juga, Prop. 3, 9, 9; cf. aënus.

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