Galaxias,3314 by some called “galactitis,”3315 is a stone that closely resembles those next mentioned, but is interspersed with veins of blood-red or white. Galactitis3316 is of the uniform colour of milk; other names given to it are, leucogæa,3317 leucographitis,3318 and synnephitis,3319 and, when pounded in water, both in taste and colour it marvellously resembles milk. This stone promotes the secretion of the milk in nursing women, it is said; in addition to which, attached to the neck of infants, it produces saliva, and it dissolves when put into the mouth. They say, too, that it deprives persons of their memory: it is in the rivers Nilus and Acheloüs that it is produced. Some persons give the name of “galactitis” to a smaragdus surrounded with veins of white. Gallaica is a stone like argyrodamas,3320 but of a somewhat more soiled appearance; these stones are found in twos and threes clustered together. The people of Media send us gassinade,3321 a stone like orobus in colour, and sprinkled with flowers, as it were: it is found at Arbela. This stone, too, conceives,3322 it is said; a fact which it admits when shaken; the conception lasting for a period of three months. Glossopetra,3323 which resembles the human tongue, is not engendered, it is said, in the earth, but falls from the heavens during the moon’s eclipse; it is considered highly necessary for the purposes of selenomancy.3324 To render all this however, still more incredible, we have the evident untruthfulness of one assertion made about it, that it has the property of silencing the winds. Gorgonia3325 is nothing but a coral, which has been thus named from the circumstance that, though soft in the sea, it afterwards assumes the hardness of stone: it has the property of counteracting fascinations,3326 it is said. Goniæa,3327 it is asserted, and with the same degree of untruthfulness, ensures vengeance upon our enemies.