flint Copy link • flint: sĭlex, ĭcis, m. and f.: to hew f., s. caedere, Cic.: to pave roads with f., vias silice sternere, Liv. 28, 38: to strike a light with a f., silici scintillam excudere, Virg. Aen. 1, 174: sometimes with lapis or saxum, a f. stone; esp. in formal phraseology: that the feciales should bring each a f. stone, ut fetiales privos lapides silices ferrent, S. C. in Liv. 30, 43, med. Fig.: we were not made of f., non silice nati sumus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 12. Of f., siliceus: Cato: Vitr. Fig.: a man of f. (of great fortitude), vir siliceus, Sen. Ira 3, 8, 1.
FLINT Copy link • FLINTsilex: lapis silex: lapis siliceus; saxum silex; saxum siliceum: of or made of a flint, siliceus. FIG., His heart is as hard as a flint, habet silices pectus ejus (Ov., Trist., 3, 11, 4); stat ei in corde silex (Tib., 1, 1, 64).