Citations:amphicome

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English citations of amphicome

  • 1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, page 484:
    The amphicome is mentioned by Democritus and Pliny, though little known among the moderns.
  • 1879 April, Margaret Field, “Wonder-Working Mediums”, in Potter's American Monthly, volume 12, number 88, page 269:
    There was a stone known to the ancients, especially to the Greeks, called the amphicome, and also erotylos, on account of its power to excite love, whose ability to divine future events was considered all potent.