chrysolithos

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

chrȳsŏlĭthŏs, i, m. and f., = χρυσόλιθος,

chrysolite , the topaz of the Greeks and of modern mineralogists , Plin. 37, 9, 42, § 126; Prop. 2 (3), 16, 44; Ov. M. 2, 109; Prud. Psych. 854; Isid. Orig. 16, 15, 2.

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