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The word sapphire is derived from the Latin word "sapphirus", meaning blue.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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The word sapphire is derived from the Latin word "sapphirus", meaning blue.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Theophrastus, On Stones, IV, 23, has: $$$ (translated by D.E. E.chholz, Theophrastus, De Lapidibus [Oxford, 1965], p. 65: "the sapphirus, which is speckled as if with gold").
The Lapis Lazuli of the Ancient World Schafer, Edward H. 1970
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It is evident, however, from Pliny's description, that the "sapphirus" of the ancients was the lapis lazuli of the present day.
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SAPPHIRE, Heb. mghry Septuag. sappheiron; Vulg.sapphirus. —
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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