CAMÆIEU is also frequently applied to any kind of gem, whereon figures may be engraven either indentedly or in relievo. In this sense the lapidaries of Paris are called in their statutes, cutters of camæius.
A society of learned men at Florence undertook to procure all the cameos or camæius, and intaglios in the great duke's gallery to be engraven; and began to draw the heads of divers emperors in cameos.