Note 2956 — BOOK XXXVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PRECIOUS STONES.
John Bostock translation
Most probably from ἥλιος, the “sun.” Phaëthon was fabled to have been the son of Apollo. See the story in Ovid’s Met. B. ii. l. 340, et seq.
John Bostock translation
Most probably from ἥλιος, the “sun.” Phaëthon was fabled to have been the son of Apollo. See the story in Ovid’s Met. B. ii. l. 340, et seq.