Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Beryllus

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Beryllus

（βήρυλλος). The beryl; a precious stone of the emerald species, and much used by the Romans in the adornment of their cups. Pliny states that the Indian lapidaries were accustomed to colour rock-crystal in such a way as to counterfeit the beryl. The same writer speaks of six varieties of the beryl, or of what he considered such.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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