Regis dormitorio, constat vnus pillarius, seu columna de auro solido et carbunculus conclusus in illo longitudinis pedis vnius, totum habitaculum de nocte perfundens lumine claro. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And he would find her an Indian adamas stone harder than any other substance known and as big as a hazelnut, and a wonderful green smaragdus stone with blue flickers in its heart, all the way from northern Scythia … and a carbunculus stone, as bright and glistening as a blister full of new blood
❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
Garnets, more than other stones, have been used in the cabochon cut, and when in that form are usually known as _carbuncles_ (from carbunculus, a glowing coal). ❋ Frank Bertram Wade (N/A)
To this latter species belong also _ignis Persicus_, _carbunculus_ and _antrax_. ❋ Henry Ebenezer Handerson (N/A)
It very probably corresponds to the anthrax of Theophrastus (De lap., 18), the carbunculus of Pliny ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It is rendered "anthrax" in the LXX., and "carbunculus" in the Vulgate. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)
The same causes are considered to be operative in carbunculus as in furuncle; general debility and depression, from whatever cause, predisposing to its formation, and the introduction of a microbe, probably the same as in furunculus, being at present looked upon as the exciting factor. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)
In cubiculo autem Regis dormitorio, constat vnus pillarius, seu columna de auro solido et carbunculus conclusus in illo longitudinis pedis vnius, totum habitaculum de nocte perfundens lumine claro. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
Five days later the Muluchath citadel belonged to Gaius Marius, together with a fabulous hoard of silver coins, silver bars, and a thousand talents in gold; there were also two small chests, one stuffed with the finest, reddest carbunculus stones anyone had ever seen, and the other stuffed with stones no one had ever seen, long naturally faceted crystals carefully polished to reveal that they were deep pink at one end, shading through to dark green at the other. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)
"pyrope," the deeper and richer tints being designated "carbuncle," from the Latin _carbunculus_, a little coal, because when this beautiful variety of the "noble" garnet is held up between the eyes and the sun, it is no longer a deep, blood-red, but has exactly the appearance of a small piece of live or glowing coal, the scarlet portion of its colour-mixture being particularly evident. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)
