I.phengite, selenite, or erystallized gypsum, used for window-panes: “in Cappadociā repertus est lapis candidus, atque translucens, ex argumento phengites appellatus,” Plin. 36, 22, 46, § 163; “lapis,” Suet. Dom. 14.
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phengītes , ae, m., = φεγγίτης,