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PLINY, in Book 36, par. 134, in the course of a description of various minerals, says, “Palmati (sc. lapides) circa Mundam in Hispania, ubi Caesar dictator Pompeium vicit, reperiuntur, idque quotiens fregeris”. (Stones marked with the pattern of a palm, which appears however often you break the stone, are discovered near Munda in Spain, where, Cæsar during his dictatorship, defeated Pompey.)
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BAILEY, K. The ‘Lapides palmati’ mentioned in the “Historia Naturalis” of the Elder Pliny. Nature 128, 672 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128672a0
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