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Sardonyx

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SARDONYX.
himself excessively." All testimonies showing that the Emerald-, priceless both from its intrinsic worth, and the engraving upon it by so famous an artist, was the object the sacrifice of which to Nemesis was deemed sufficient to atone for all the other over-great favours of Fortune, and to avert her jealousy.
The Sardonyx is said by Marbodus to typify three of the Cardinal Virtues : the black, Humility ; the white, Chastity ; and the red, Modesty or Martyrdom. Strange to say, however, it possessed no medicinal or mystic qualities.
(Kohler: Untersuchung uber den Sard, den Onyx, und den Sardonyx. Bruckmann's reply to him in his Nachtrag uber den Sarder, &c. Bôttiger : Ueber die Echtheit und das Vaterland dor Antiken Onyxcameen von aussorordentlicher Grosse. (A most copious and instructive dissertation.) Veltheim : Etwas iiber die Onyxgebirge des Ctesias.)
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