<OL TYPE="1"><LI>jasper, a precious stone of various colours (for some are purple, others blue, others green, and others the colour of brass)</OL>There is one kind called the Aeizusa, like to air and anotherCrystallizusa, clear as crystal. So Pliny speaks of a white Jaspercalled Astrios, and which, he says is "crystallo propinquans", nearto crystal, found in India, and on the shores of Pallene. (Gill)