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Anthrax

（ἄνθραξ).

1.

Coal or charcoal, generally used in the plural ἄνθρακες, like the English “coals” (Aristoph. Ach. 34).

2.

A precious stone, the carbuncle.

3.

Cinnabar.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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