androdamas

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

andrŏdămās, antis, m., = ἀνδροδάμας (man-subduing).

I A species of bloodstone (so called from its great hardness), Plin. 36, 20, 38, § 146.—

II A silver-colored , quadrangular , and cubical precious stone (acc. to Bruckmann, a cubical, silver-colored marcasite), Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 144.