AMPHICOME, in natural history, a kind of figured stone, of a round shape, but rugged, and beset with eminences, celebrated on account of its use in divination. The word is originally Greek, ἀμφίκομη, q. d. utrinque comata, or hairy on all sides. This stone is also called Erotolus, Equulus, Amatoria, probably on account of its supposed power of creating love. The amphicome is mentioned by Democritus and Pliny, tho' little known among the moderns. Mercatus takes it for the same with the lapis lauricatus, of which he gives a figure.