gemel

Updated: May 18, 2025

Gemel i Carreri, a pretended traveller, it is said, indeed, but who seems everywhere to have written upon extreme good information, represents the city of Mexico as containing a hundred thousand inhabitants; a number which, in spite of all the exaggerations of the Spanish writers, is probably more than five times greater than what it contained in the time of Montezuma.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

To which he receives as answer “Ay, and a poesy: Annulus hic nobis, quod sic uterque, dabit.” He at once exclaims “... Good! This ring will give you what you both desire. I’ll make the whole house chant it, and the parish.” Such rings were known as Gemel or Gimmal rings, the word being derived from the Latin gemellus, twins.

F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt - Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places: Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting,: Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture