| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 37.38 | Plin. Nat. 37.39 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 37.40 |
For sapphiros, [Note] too, is refulgent with spots [Note] like gold. It is also of an azure colour, though sometimes, but rarely, it is purple; the best kind being that which comes from Media. In no case, however, is this stone diaphanous; in addition to which, it is not suited for engraving when intersected with hard particles of a crystalline [Note] nature. Those among them that have the colour of cyanos are generally thought to be the male stones.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 37.38 | Plin. Nat. 37.39 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 37.40 |
