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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

asbestŏs: i, m. (sc. lapis), = ἄσβεστος> (incombustible),
I a stone of an iron-gray color, found in Arcadia, differing from the common asbestos, perh. amiantus, Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 146.