silex icis, m and (poet.) f
a hard stone, flint, flint-stone, fire-stone, granite:
silicem caedere: vias sternere silice, L.: silici scintillam excudere, V.: silicem
iaculatus in hostīs, O.: silicem pedibus quae
conteret atrum, Iu.: privos lapides silices secum
ferre, L.—As a symbol of hardness or fixedness of character: non
silice nati sumus: Nec rigidas silices in pectore gerit, O.—A rock, crag:
Stabat acuta silex praecisis undique saxis,
V.— Lime-stone: terrenā silices fornace
soluti, O.
