τόπαζος
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
English (LSJ)
ὁ, a gem of green hue (Plin.HN37.107), hence prob.
A chrysolite or peridot, AP6.329 (Leon.Alex.), J.AJ3.7.5, D.P.1121, Orph. L.278:—also τόπαζον, τό, Eust.ad D.P. l.c.; τοπάζιον, LXX Ex.28.17, Ps.118(119).127, Str.16.4.6, D.S.3.39, Apoc.21.20:—Pliny (HN l.c.) gives the name of topazon (v.l. topazium) to two varieties. (From the Trogodyte language acc. to Plin. l. c.; perh. the same as ταβάσιος.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1129] ὁ, der Topas, ein durchsichtiger, goldglänzender Edelstein, zu unterscheiden von dem undurchsichtigen, grünen Topas des Plinius, welcher eine Jaspis- od. Achatart zu sein scheint, D. Per. 1121.
