LIGURIUS, a precious Stone; in Hebrew Leschem1. Theophrastus and Pliny describe the Ligurius to be a Stone like a Carbuncle, of a Brightness sparkling like Fire: Saint Epiphanius and Saint Jerom took it for a kind of Hyacinth. Some have asserted, that it is the same as Lyncurius, or the Lynx-stone, formed, as is said,2 of the Lynx’s Urine, which is congealed into a shining Stone, as soon as it comes out of this Creature’s Body. But this is fabulous, as Pliny himself observes who relates it. The Ligurius was the first Stone in the third Row upon the High Priest’s Pectoral, and the Name of God was inscribed upon it.
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