Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Elenchus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ELEN'CHUS. A large drop pearl in the shape of a pear, much esteemed by the wealthy ladies of Rome, who were fond of wearing two or three together as pendants for the ears, or dangling from the rings of the fingers. (Plin. H. N. ix. 56. Juv. Sat. vi. 459.) The example (Elenchus/1.1) is copied from an original ear-ring, consisting of one large elenchus, for a drop.

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  Elenchus/1.1