The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[835]. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 994. See Mawe, Treatise on Diamonds, p. 85—134. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 954.

[836]. Ἀλλο δὲ τι γένος ἐστὶ λίθων ὥσπερ ἐξ ἐναντίων πεφυκὸς, ἄκαυστον ὅλως, ἄνθραξ καλούμενος, ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὰ σφραγίδια γλύφουσιν, ἐρυθρὸν μὲν τῷ χρώματι, πρὸς δὲ τὸν ἥλιον τιθέμενον ἄνθρακος καιομένου ποιεῖ χρόαν. Theoph. de Lapid. § 18.

[837]. “Is vulgo putatur in tenebris carbonis instar lucere; fortassis quia Pyropus, seu Anthrax appellatus à veteribus fuit.” Anselm, Boet. Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, t. ii. c. viii. p. 140.

[838]. Sir John Hill, Notes on Theophrastus, de Lapidibus, p. 76, seq.

[839]. Theoph. de Lapid. § 23.

[840]. Plin. xxxvii. 16. Boetius, l. ii. c. lii. 195. Menand. ap. Athen. iii. 46. Luc. Saturn. Epist. § 29. Suid. v. σμάραγδος. t. ii. p. 769. a.

[841]. Theoph. de Lapid. § 24.

[842]. See Baldæus, description of the Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, chap. xxiv.

[843]. Theoph. de Lapid. § 23.

[844]. Id. § 24. Plin. xxxvii. 19.