A). anvil of stone or metal, A. Fr. 307 (reading μύδρος); τύπτεσθαι μύδρος, i. e. as hard as an anvil, Antiph. 195.3 ; also the redhot mass of iron on the anvil, Call. Dian. 49 , Nic. Al. 50 ; μύδρους αἴρειν χεροῖν hold red-hot iron in the hands, as an ordeal, S. Ant. 264 ; μύδρον σιδήρεον κατεπόντωσαν Hdt. 1.165 , cf. Arist. Ath. 23.5 , IG 12.682 (prob.), Call. Fr. 209 ; Πακτώλιος μ. lump [of gold] from Pactolus, Lyc. 272 ; μ. διάπυρος a red-hot mass of stone or metal, of the sun, Anaxag. ap. D.L. 2.8 , cf. 15 , Archel. in Placit. 2.13.6 , Ph. 1.623 ; ἀστέρος μ. Critias 25.35 D.; μ. διάπυροι the stones thrown out by Aetna, Arist. Mu. 395b23 , cf. Str. 6.2.8 ; also, of red-hot stones or pieces of metal, thrown into a liquid to vaporize it, Hp. Mul. 2.134 : generally, a stone, Orph. A. 896 ; ὁ ἀὴρ διάπυρος καὶ μ. γενόμενος dub. in Hp. Flat. 8 ; μύδρος κίων παχὺς ἄξυστος (sine interpr.) Gloss. (Not in Hom. exc. in a spurious line read by some after Il. 15.21 .) (Cf. σμύδρος.)