† 1. ŏphītes, ae, m., = ὀφίτης (snakestone), a kind of marble spotted like a snake, serpentine-stone: ophites serpentium maculis similis, unde et nomen accepit, Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 55; 36, 22, 43, § 158; Mart. 6, 42, 15; Luc. 9, 714.