As to the other Greek name, [Greek: sidêritis], or [Greek: lithos sidêritis] this was given not only to the loadstone but also to non-magnetic iron. In the _Etymologicum magnum_ (under the word [Greek: magnêtis]), and in Photius (_Quæst. amphiloch._, q. 131), it is stated that the name _sideritis_ was given to the loadstone either because of its action on iron, or of its resemblance in aspect to iron, _or rather_, they say, _because the loadstone was originally found in the mines of this metal_. Alexander of Aphrodisias expressly says (_Quætiones Physicæ_, II. 23) that {22} the loadstone appears to be nothing else than [Greek: gê sidêritis], the earth which yields iron, or the earth of iron. [53] PAGE 11, LINE 19. Page 11, line 29. _ab Orpheo_.--The reference is to v. 301-328 of the [Greek: Lithika]. The passage, as given in Abel's edition (Berol., 1881), begins: [Greek: Tolma d' athanatous kai henêei meilissethai] [Greek: magnêssêi, tên d' exoch' ephilato thousios Arês,] [Greek: houneken, hoppote ken pelasêi polioio sidêrou,] [Greek: êute parthenikê terenochroa chersin helousa] [Greek: êitheon sternôi prosptussetai himeroenti,] [Greek: hôs hêg' harpazousa poti spheteron demas haiei] [Greek: aps palin ouk ethelei methemen polemista sidêron.] [54] PAGE 11, LINE 20. Page 11, line 31. _Gallis aimant_.--The French word _aimant_, or _aymant_, is generally supposed to be derived from _adamas_. Nevertheless Klaproth (_op. citat._, p. 19) suggests that the word _aimant_ is a mere literal translation into French of the Chinese word _thsu chy_, which is the common name of the magnet, and which means _loving stone_, or _stone that loves_. All through the east the names of the magnet have mostly the same signification, for example, in Sanskrit it is _thoumbaka_ (the kisser), in Hindustani _tchambak_. [55] PAGE 11, LINE 20. Page 11, line 32. _Italis calamita_.--The name _calamita_, universal in Italian for the magnet, is also used in Roumanian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Wendish. Its supposed derivation from the Hebrew _khallamîsh_ is repudiated by Klaproth, who also points out that the use of [Greek: kalamita] in Greek is quite modern. He adds that the only reasonable explanation of the word _calamita_ is that given by Father Fournier (_op. citat._), who says: