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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lyd·i·an a.  Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character.
 Softly sweet in Lydian measures,
 Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.   --Dryden.
 Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.
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