μυρμηκίας
From LSJ
οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death
English (LSJ)
λίθος, ὁ, a precious stone
A with wart-like lumps upon it, Plin.HN37.174. II μ. χρυσός glod dug by μύρμηκες 11, Hld.10.26.
German (Pape)
[Seite 220] ὁ, λίθος, Plin. H. N. 37, 10, ein Edelstein mit erhabenen schwarzen Stellen, wie Warzen; – χρυσὸς μυρμηκίας, das nach der Fabel von den Ameisen in Indien gegrabene Gold.
