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The name given to these flints recalls the origin attributed to them. The Romans call them CERAUNIA from keraun'oc, thunder, and in the catalogue of the possessions of a noble Veronese published in 1656, we find them mentioned under this name. Every one knows Cymbeline's funeral chant in Shakespeare's play: Fear no more the lightning flash Nor the all dreaded thunder-stone.
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