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σμάραγδος [μα^], ἡ （ὁ, Str.16.4.20, Orph.L.614), name of several green stones, including the
A.emerald, Hdt.2.44, 3.41, Pl.Phd.110d, Thphr.Lap.23, al., LXX Ex.28.9, al., Str.l.c., 17.1.45, Plin.HN37.62, al., Hld.2.30, Olymp.Hist.p.466 D., PMag.Lond.46.239; also μάραγδος , Men.373, Com. in PSI2.143.3, Orph. l.c., Nonn.D.5.178, 18.80; “σφραγὶς μαράγδου” IG11(2).161 B 44 (Delos, iii B.C.), 199 B 59 (ibid.), but “σφραγὶς σμαράγδου” 203 B 87 (ibid., iii B.C.); ζμάραγδος implied in Luc.Jud.Voc.9.
II. Σμάραγδος, ἡ, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, “ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου” Proc.Soc.Bibl. Arch. 31 (1909).323 (i A.D.); μεταλλάρχη (gen. sg.) “Ζμαράκτου” OGI660.2 (Egypt, i A.D.); also “Σμάραγδος ὄρος” Ptol.Geog.4.5.8.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.44
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.41
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 17.1.45
    • Plato, Phaedo, 110d
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.20
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 28.9
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.62
    • Lucian, Judicium vocalium, 9
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