SECT. IV. _Homer’s Perceptions and Use of Colour._ Modern perceptions of colour usually definite 457 Signs of immature perception in Homer 458 His chief adjectives of colour 459 His quasi-adjectives of colour 460 Applications of ξανθὸς, ἐρυθρὸς, πορφύρεος 460 Of κύανος and κυάνεος 462 Of φοίνιξ 465 Of πόλιος 466 The quasi-adjectives of colour; χλωρὸς 467 The αἰθαλόεις of Homer 468 The ῥοδόεις and ῥοδοδάκτυλος 469 The ἰόεις, ἰοειδὴς, ἰοδνεφὴς 470 The οἴνοψ and μιλτοπάρηος 472 Αἴθων and its cognates; also ἀργὸς, αἴολος 473 Γλαυκὸς, γλαυκῶπις, γλαυκιόων 474 Χάροπος, σιγαλόεις, μαρμάρεος, ἠεροειδὴς 475 Conflict of the colours assigned to the same object 475 Great predominance of white and black 476 Remarkable omissions to specify colour 477 In the case of the horse among others 479 In the case of human beauty, and of Iris 482 In the case of the heavens 483 Causes of this peculiar treatment of colour 483 License of poetry in the matter of colour 484 Illustrated from Shakespeare 485 Homer’s contracted means of training in colour 487 His system one of light and dark 488 Colour in the later Greek language 491 Greek philosophy of colour 493 Nature of our advantage over Homer 495 _Note on κύανος and χαλκός._ Meanings for κύανος heretofore suggested 496 Probably a native blue carbonate of copper 497 Χαλκὸς to be understood as hardened copper 499