σάπφειρος

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Ἔρως, ὅ κατ' ὀμμάτων στάζεις πόθον → Eros who drips desire into the eyes

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Transliteration A: sáppheiros Transliteration B: sappheiros Transliteration C: sapfeiros Beta Code: sa/pfeiros

English (LSJ)

(proparox.), ἡ,

   A lapis lazuli, of which two chief kinds, κυανῆ and χρυσῆ, are mentioned by Thphr.Lap.23,37, D.P.1105; cf. LXX Ex.24.10, al., J.AJ3.7.5, Peripl. M.Rubr.39. (Cf. Hebr. sappīr, perh. not Semitic.)