Note 15 — I Magic Stones and Electric Gems

See Pinder, “De adamante,” Berolini, 1829, pp. 70 sqq., where the use of the word adamas to designate iron is said to have been conjectured by Schneider, in his “Analecta ad hist. rei met. vet.,” pp. 5, 6. Adamas as a man’s name occurs in the “Iliad,” xii, 140 and xiii, 560.