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affatilis

AFFATILIS
, corrupte pro Asphaltis vel Asphaltites, apud Jacobum de Vitriaco Historiæ Orientalis lib 3. inter Anecdota Marteniana tom. 3. pag. 279 : Lacus Affatilis est in terra Jerosolymitana in confinio Arabiæ et Palæstinæ, ubi fuerunt olim quinque civitates, quæ propter peccata suorum civium demersæ sunt. Asphaltis autem seu Asphaltites dicitur, quod nihil præter bitumen gignat ; ab ἄσφαλτος, bitumen. Mare mortuum etiam appellatur.

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