Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lapidarius

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. 

LAPIDA'RIUS (λιθουργὸς, λιθοξόος, λιθοτόμος). A stone-cutter, lapidary, or mason, and, like our own terms, including the workers of marble as well as stone. (Pet. Sat. 65. 5. Ulp. Dig. 13. 6. 5.) The illustration (Lapidarius/1.1) represents two masons preparing a block of stone or marble, and a column for the building of Carthage, in the Vatican Virgil.

2. When used as an adjective, the word is expressive of anything connected or concerned with stone; as latomia lapidaria, a stone pit (Plaut. Capt. iii. 5. 65.); navis lapidaria, a vessel freighted with stone (Pet. Sat. 117. 12.); lapidariae literae, capital letters such as are cut out of stone in inscriptions. Id. 58. 7.

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  Lapidarius/1.1