Silex, sœmioino genere protulit. Virg. Venæ silicis. Virg. Atra silex, Virg. Acutus silex. Catull. Durus silex. Ouid. Impenetrabilis silex ferro, Vide IMPENETRABILIS. Indomitus silex. Stat. Nuda filex. Virg. Ordinarius silex, Vide Ordinarius in ORDO. Rigidi silices. Ouid. Validi. Lucret. Scintillam silicis excudere. Virg. Ab vsu silices tenuantur. Ouid.Euen slint stones are worne with vse.Stat tibi silex in corde. Tibull. Thou arte without pitie or mercy, thou hast an hard and stony hart.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sĭlex, ĭcis, m. (poet. and late Lat.; also fem., Verg. E. 1, 15; id. A. 6, 471; 6, 602; 8, 233; Ov. M. 9, 225; 9, 304; 9, 613; Amm. 14, 6, 16; cf. Quint. 1, 6, 2; gen. plur. silicum, Lucr. 6, 683; Luc. 4, 304) [root sar-, to be firm; cf.: solum, solidus]. I.Any hard stone found in fields, a pebble-stone, a flint, flint-stone: silicem caedere, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 85: silice vias sternere, Liv. 41, 27; cf. id. 41, 27, 7: silici scintillam excudere, Verg. A. 1, 174: gravem medios silicem jaculatus in hostes, Ov. M. 7, 139 et saep.: per ampla spatia urbis, subversasque silices,
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, Amm. 14, 6, 16; cf.: silicem pedibus quae conteret atrum, Juv. 6, 350.— Freq. joined with lapis: Ag. Illa mulier lapidem silicem subigere, ut se amet, potest. Mi. Pol id quidem haud mentire: nam tu es lapide silice stultior, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 77 sq.; Cato, R. R. 18, 3; Liv. 30, 43; Fest. s. v. lapidem, p. 115 Müll.; and in inscrr.: II VIRI VIAM LAPID(e) SILIC(e) STERN(endam) CVR(averunt), Inscr. Bull. dell' Inst. 1839, p. 60; so Inscr. Orell. 6617.—With saxum: porcum saxo silice percussit, Liv. 1, 24 fin. —To denote hard-heartedness: non silice nati sumus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 12: nec in tenero stat tibi corde silex, Tib. 1, 1, 64: nec rigidas silices in pectore gerit, Ov. M. 9, 614: et dicam silices pectus habere tuum, id. Tr. 3, 11, 4: moturaque duras Verba queror silices, id. M. 9, 304.—II. In gen., a rock, crag (poet.), Lucr. 6, 683: validi silices, id. 1, 571; 2, 449: stabat acuta silex praecisis undique saxis, Verg. A. 8, 233: nudus silex,