inconsumptible

Updated: May 24, 2025

Each ball was of precious stone; one an amethyst, another an African carbuncle, the third an opal, and the fourth an anthracites. They were full of burning water five times distilled in a serpentine limbec, and inconsumptible, like the oil formerly put into Pallas' golden lamp at Acropolis of Athens by Callimachus.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5