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Show 000. Marc Antony made overtures to Nonius for its purchase, intending, it is thought, to present it to Cleopatra, but the .Senator refused to part with it, and, for fear that it would be taken from him by sheer force, sought safety in flight. Here history loses all trace of this famous pern, thore being no record o! its transferal from Nonius Iff any of his family. An Opal Worth m million. The most famous opal in hlstorv was hat which was worn In a ring by the Romrn Senator Nonius, in the days of the triumvirate. Its size scarcely equalled that of a medium-sized hazelnut. hazel-nut. Yet its beauty and brilliancy rendered it a marvel among the dilettanti dilet-tanti of Rome especially when it was known that the goldsmiths and "moneychangers" "money-changers" had set its value at fl.OOO,- |
