κιννάβαρι
From LSJ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
English (LSJ)
[νᾰ], εως, τό,
A cinnabar, bisulphuret of mercury, whence vermilion is obtained, Arist.Mete.378a26, Thphr.Lap.58, Dsc.5.94; thought by some to be serpent's blood, Dsc.l.c., Plin.HN33.116:—a masc.form κιννάβαρις, Anaxandr.14:—also τεγγάβαρι (q.v.). 2 = ἐρυθρόδανον, Ps.-Dsc.3.143 (-ρις).
