Metin
viventes liquido lux evomit alta profundo,
ingens chrysolitus, nativo interlitus auro,
hinc sibi sapphirum sociaverat, inde beryllum,
855
distantesque nitor medius variabat honores,
hic chalcedon hebes perfunditur ex hyacinthi
lumine vicino; nam forte cyanea propter
stagna lapis cohibens ostro fulgebat aquoso.
sardonicem pingunt amethystina, pingit iaspis
860
sardium iuxta adpositum pulcherque topazon.
has inter species smaragdina gramine verno
prata virent volvitque vagos lux herbida fluctus,
te quoque conspicuum structura interserit, ardens
chrysoprase, et sidus saxis stellantibus addit.
865
stridebat gravidis funalis machina vinclis
inmensas rapiens alta ad fastigia gemmas,
at domus interior septem subnixa columnis
crystalli algentis vitrea de rupe recisis
construitur, quarum tegit edita calculus albens
870
in conum caesus capita et sinuamine subter
subductus conchae in speciem, quod mille talentis
