Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 366
nto the sea at the mouthof the river Po, and was drowned. The two sisters and Epaso grieved and wejit at his fatalmisadventure; their tears were changed into beads of amber;the Heliadae, his sisters, who had aided him at his departure,weie metamorphosed into poplar trees, and his friend into aswan…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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