Note 601 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 3)
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Orphica: Lithica, 335 sqq. This was perhaps the “dragon-stone” which was supposed to confer extraordinary sharpness of vision on its owner. See Ptolemaeus Hephaestionis, Nov. Hist. v. p. 150, in Photius, Bibliotheca, ed. I. Bekker, p. 192 of A. Westermann’s Mythographi Graeci.