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 Erotylos, Ερωτῶντες, Amatoria, probably on account of its supposed power of creating love. The amphicome is mentioned by Democritus and Pliny. Mercatus takes it for the same with Die lapis lumbricatus, of which he gives a figure.