saxĭfĭcus

a, um, adj.

saxum-facio

I. that turns into stone, petrifying (poet.): Medusa, Ov. Ib. 555; Sil. 10, 178; Luc. 9, 670; cf.: vultus Medusae, Ov. M. 5, 217: os (Medusae), Sen. Herc. Fur. 901.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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