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|lshtext=<b>ădămas</b>: antis, m. (acc. Gr. adamanta, adamantas), = [[ἀδάμας]] ([[invincible]]),<br /><b>I</b> [[adamant]], the [[hard]] est [[iron]] or [[steel]]; [[hence]] [[poet]]., for [[any]] [[thing]] [[inflexible]], [[firm]], [[lasting]], etc. ([[first]] used by Verg.): [[porta]] adversa [[ingens]] solidoque adamante columnae, Verg. A. 6, 552; cf. Mart. 5, 11; adamante texto vincire, [[with]] [[adamantine]] chains, Sen. Herc. F. 807.—Trop. of [[character]], [[hard]], [[unyielding]], [[inexorable]]: nec rigidos silices solidumve in pectore [[ferrum]] aut adamanta gerit, a [[heart]] of [[stone]], Ov. M. 9, 615: lacrimis adamanta movebis, [[will]] [[move]] a [[heart]] of [[stone]], id. A. A. 1, 659; so id. Tr. 4, 8, 45: voce tua posses adamanta movere, Mart. 7, 99: [[duro]] nec [[enim]] ex adamante creati, Sed tua [[turba]] sumus, Stat. S. 1, 2, 69. —<br /><b>II</b> The diamond: adamanta infragilem omni [[cetera]] vi [[sanguine]] hireino rumpente, Plin. 20, prooem. 1; 37, 4, 15, § 55 sq.