In the Talmud, it is called _achzhàb’th_, the stone which attracts; in the Aztec, _tlaihiomani tetl_, the stone that draws by its breath; in the Sanscrit, _ayaskânta_, loving toward iron; in the Siamese, _me-lek_, that which attracts iron; in the Chinese, _thsu-chy_, love stone, also _hy-thy-chy_, stone that snatches up iron; in the French, _l’aimant_, and in the Spanish, _iman_, loving stone; in the Hungarian, _magnet kö_, love stone; while in the Greek it is called _siderites_, owing to its resemblance to iron. For _lyncurium_ of the ancients see _Phil. Trans._, Vol. LI. p. 394, and Hutton’s “Abridgments,” Vol. XI. p. 419. Euripides (“Fragmenta Euripidis,” Didot edit., 1846, p. 757) called it _lapis herculaneus_, from its power over iron, and it was also known as _lapis heracleus_, doubtless because the best was, at one time, said to be found near Heraclea in Lydia (Plato, “Ion”--Burgess--Vol. IV. p. 294; see, besides, Blavatsky, “Isis Unveiled,” Vol. I. p. 130; Hervart (J. F.), Ingolstadii, 1623). It has likewise been designated as follows: Chinese, _tchu-chy_, directing stone; Icelandic, _leiderstein_, leading stone; Swedish, _segel-sten_, seeing stone; Tonkinin, _d’ànamtchûm_, stone which shows the south; and, by reason of its great hardness, the Greeks called it _calamita_; the Italians _calamita_; the French _calamite_, also _diamant_; the Hebrews _khalamish_ or _kalmithath_, and the Romans _adamas_, while _adamant_ was the name given to the magnetic needle (compass) by the English of the time of Edward III (T. H. H. Martin, “De l’aimant, de ses noms divers et de ses variétés,” Paris, 1861; Buttmann, “Bemerkungen ... des Magnetes und des Basaltes,” 1808, Band II.; G. A. Palm, “Der Magnet in Alterthum,” 1867).[7] “This stone adamas is dyuers and other than an Magnas, for yf an adamas be sette by yren it suffryth not the yren come to the magnas, but drawyth it by a manere of vyolence fro the magnas” (Trevisa, “Barth, de Prop, reb.,” XVI. 8).[8] “The adamant cannot draw yron if the diamond lye by it” (Lyly, “Euphues,” sig. K. p. 10). “Right as an adamound, iwys, can drawen to hym sotylly the yren” (“Rom. Rose”). “In Ynde groweth the admont stone ... she by her nature draweth to her yron” (Caxton, “Myrrour,” II. vii. 79). “The adamant placed neare any iron will suffer it to be drawen away of the lode stone” (Maplet, “Greene Forest,” I.). “You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; but yet you draw not iron; for my heart is true as steel” (Shakespeare, “Midsum. Night’s Dream,” Act. ii. sc. 1). “As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, as iron to adamant” (Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida,” Act iii. sc. 2). “The grace of God’s spirit, like the true load stone or adamant, draws up the yron heart of man to it” (Bishop Hall, “Occas. Medit.,” 52.). “The adamant ... is such an enemy to the magnet that, if it be bound to it, it will not attract iron” (Leonardus, “Mirr. Stones,” 63).