Crystallus

Latin-English

crystall|us, -ī. (krisˈtal.lus) fem. or masc.

1. A crystal.

[Greek κρύσταλλος crystallos.]

Cic.	100%	Class.	100%	Rom.	14%	Med.	0%	Neo.	0%

Constructions

none yet collected

Loci

• αʹ Propertius, Elegiae 4.3:

• βʹ Lucan, Pharsalia 10.159-161:

• γʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.45:

Umorem hunc terrae quadam anima crystalli modo glaciari et in lapidem concrescere manifesto apparet, quod cum ferae decidere in puteos tales, medullae in ossibus earum post unam hiemem in eandem lapidis naturam figurantur.

It is patently obvious that this is a liquid frozen like quartz by some spirit in the earth and hardened into rock, because when animals fall into their mineshafts, their bone marrow transforms into the same kind of rock after one winter.

• δʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.66:

Auctores sunt in India et crystallo fracta fieri et ob id nullum conparari Indico.

It is reported that in India it is even made from ground quartz, and because of this nothing can compare to Indian [glass].