Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Stalagmium

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. 

STALAG'MIUM. An ear-ring, furnished with one or more drops of gold, pearls, beads, or precious stones, which depend from it and imitate the shape of a drop of water (στάλαγμα), which is the meaning of the Greek word after which the Latin one is formed. (Festus s. v. Plaut. Men. iii. 3. 18.) The annexed illustration (Stalagmium/1.1) affords an example, from an original in the British Museum.

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  Stalagmium/1.1