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Solinus wrote "De Mirabilibus Mundi." He was a Latin grammarian; but the period in which he flourished is doubtful. Moreri says, his work was entitled, "qui est un recueil des choses les plus mémorables qu'on voit en divers païs."

This story does not appear in Pliny.

There is no such monster in Pliny. He uses the word for a scion or graft, book 17. c. x. and it also signifies a kind of shell-fish, according to Basil. .

Achates is the Latin name for agate. "Found it was first in Sicilie, near unto a river called likewise Achates; but afterwards in many other places."