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beryllus

beryllus · m

A precious stone of a sea-green color

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

bēryllus — Lewis & Short

bēryllus (beryllus, bērillus, berul-lus, i, m., = bh/rullos.

Prud. Psych. 855; Isid. Orig. 16, 7, 5; Plin. 37, 5, 20, § 76 Jan.),

I A precious stone of a sea-green color, coming from India, beryl, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 9; Plin. 37, 5, 20, § 76 sqq.; Isid. Orig. l. l.; Sol. 53; Juv. 5, 37; Dig. 39, 4, 16, § 7.—

B Meton. for a ring with a beryl, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 9.—

II Beryllus aëroides, = bh/rullos a)eroeidh/s, the sapphire, Plin. l. l. § 77.

In the wild

beryllo Claudian, Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1.90
beryllus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.22
beryllis Tertullian, De Anima 9
beryllis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.37.p22
berullo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p6
berylli Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 9.1.30

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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