pyropoecilos

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

pyrŏpoecĭlos lapis, = πυροποίκιλος, or pyrrhŏpoecĭlos, = πυρροποίκιλος,

a kind of porphyry , Plin. 36, 8, 13, § 63; 36, 22, 43, § 157.