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1 adamas
ădămas, antis, m. (acc. Gr. adamanta, adamantas), = adamas (invincible), adamant, the hard est iron or steel; hence poet., for any thing inflexible, firm, lasting, etc. (first used by Verg.):II.porta adversa ingens solidoque adamante columnae,
Verg. A. 6, 552; cf. Mart. 5, 11;adamante texto vincire,
with adamantine chains, Sen. Herc. F. 807.— Trop. of character, hard, unyielding, inexorable:nec rigidos silices solidumve in pectore ferrum aut adamanta gerit,
a heart of stone, Ov. M. 9, 615:lacrimis adamanta movebis,
will move a heart of stone, id. A. A. 1, 659; so id. Tr. 4, 8, 45:voce tua posses adamanta movere,
Mart. 7, 99:duro nec enim ex adamante creati, Sed tua turba sumus,
Stat. S. 1, 2, 69. —The diamond:adamanta infragilem omni cetera vi sanguine hireino rumpente,
Plin. 20, prooem. 1; 37, 4, 15, § 55 sq.
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