smaragdus

And he would find her an Indian adamas stone harder than any other substance known and as big as a hazelnut, and a wonderful green smaragdus stone with blue flickers in its heart, all the way from northern Scythia … and a carbunculus stone, as bright and glistening as a blister full of new blood …

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Delicate tables, chiseled from the humbler gems, were scattered about the chamber; agate, topaz, lapis-lazuli, amethyst, and a smaragdus of miraculous beauty.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

At Tyre, as among the Hebrews, Baal had his symbolical pillars, one of gold and one of smaragdus, which, transported by phantasy to the farthest west, are still familiar to us as the Pillars of Hercules.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

The word bphr also has sometimes been translated by smaragdus; but this is a mistake, for bphr is the carbuncle.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The first may he a general term to denote any bright, sparkling gem, (Isaiah 54: 12) the second, (Exodus 28: 17; 39: 10; Ezekiel 28: 13) is supposed to be and smaragdus or emerald.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

For the popular imagination, a kind of glamour, some mysterious connexion of the thing with human fortunes, still attaches to the curious product of artistic hands, to the ring of Polycrates, for instance, with its early specimen of engraved smaragdus, as to the mythical necklace of Harmonia.

Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866

George and de dragon, de white hart, de triangle of diamonds; look you again, de paternosters [rosaries], dey are _lieblich_! gold and coral, gold and pearls, gold and rubies; de rings, sapphire and ruby and diamond and smaragdus [emerald] -- _ach_!

The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Long earrings, which terminated in a kind of berry, studded with precious stones, then common only with the women of the East; a broad collar, or necklace, of the smaragdus or emerald; and large clasps, medallion-like, where the swan-like throat joined the graceful shoulder, gave to her dress an appearance of opulence and splendour that betokened how much the ladies of Byzantium had borrowed from the fashions of the Oriental world.

Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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Some of these older names, which are now considered synonyms of O. m. irideus, include: “Salmo regalis,” the royal silver trout of Lake Tahoe; “S. smaragdus” the emerald trout of Pyramid Lake (these first two names were based on introduced hatchery rainbow trout); “S. beardslei” (a lake-adapted form of irideus that is a predator on kokanee salmon) of Crescent Lake in Washington; “S. rivularis,” the Sacramento River steelhead; and “S. masoni,” the Oregon brook trout.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002