σμάραγδος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">μᾰ], ἡ</b> (ὁ, <span class="bibl">Str.16.4.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Orph.<span class="title">L.</span>614</span>), name of several green stones, including the <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[emerald]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.44</span>, <span class="bibl">3.41</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>110d</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Lap.</span>23</span>, al., <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>28.9</span>, al., Str.l.c., <span class="bibl">17.1.45</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>37.62</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hld.2.30</span>, Olymp.Hist.<span class="bibl">p.466</span> D., <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>46.239; also μάραγδος, <span class="bibl">Men.373</span>, Com. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>2.143.3</span>, Orph. l.c., <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>5.178</span>, <span class="bibl">18.80</span>; σφραγὶς μαράγδου <span class="title">IG</span>11(2).161 <span class="title">B</span> 44 (Delos, iii B.C.), 199 <span class="title">B</span> 59 (ibid.), but σφραγὶς σμαράγδου 203 <span class="title">B</span> 87 (ibid., iii B.C.); ζμάραγδος implied in <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Jud.Voc.</span>9</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">Σμάραγδος, ἡ</b>, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου <b class="b2">Proc.Soc.Bibl. Arch</b>. <span class="bibl">31</span> (<span class="bibl">1909</span>).<span class="bibl">323</span> (i A.D.); [[μεταλλάρχη]] (gen. sg.) Ζμαράκτου <span class="title">OGI</span>660.2 (Egypt, i A.D.); also Σμάραγδος ὄρος <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Geog.</span>4.5.8</span>.</span>