σμάραγδος [μᾰ], ἡ
(ὁ, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.4.20, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Lithica” 614)] Refs 1st c.BC+], name of several green stones, including the emerald, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44, 3.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 23, +others, LXX.Exo.28.9, +others, Str.[same place], 17.1.45, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 37.62, +others, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.30, Olymp.Hist. p.466 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, “PMag.Lond.” 46.239] LXX+5th c.BC+]; also μάραγδος, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 373, Comedy texts in “PSI” 2.143.3, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica [same place], 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 5.178, 18.80; σφραγὶς μαράγδου “IG” 11(2).161 B 44 (Delos, 3rd c.BC), 199 B 59 ([prev. passage]), but σφραγὶς σμαράγδου 203 B 87 ([prev. passage], 3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ζμάραγδος implied in [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Jud.Voc.” 9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II Σμάραγδος, ἡ, name of the emerald mines in Egypt, ἀρχιμεταλλάρχου τῆς Ζμαράγδου [[ “Proc.Soc.Bibl. Arch.” 31 (1909). 323 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; μεταλλάρχη (genitive singular) Ζμαράκτου [[ “OGI” 660.2 (Egypt, 1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also Σμάραγδος ὄρος [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Geographia” 4.5.8. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]