"Sardonyx" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the sculptor of the Concordia in the apse is not known. Pliny speaks also of a picture by Theodoros, representing Cassandra; of four elephants, cut in obsidian, a miracle of skill and labor, and of a collection of precious stones, among which was the sardonyx set in the legendary ring of Polykrates of Samos. Most of these treasures had been offered to the goddess by Augustus, moved by the liberality which Julius Caesar had shown towards his ancestral goddess, Venus Genetrix. We know from Pliny, xxxv. 9, that ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani
... a crucifix, In yellow pastures sunny warm, Beneath branch work of costly sardonyx ...
— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney
... from a peculiarity of texture, appears filled with bright spangles. Small crystals of quartz, tinged with iron, are found in Spain, and have been termed hyacinths of Compostella. Flint, chalcedony, carnelian, onyx, sardonyx, and bloodstone, or heliotrope, and the numerous varieties of agates, are principally composed of ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 560, August 4, 1832 • Various |
