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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)St. John, James Augustus

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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

Name: The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)
Author: St. John, James Augustus

St. John, James Augustus

Greece -- Social life and customs

was suffered to remain till it imbibed the whole of the dye.[1383] To
this double-dyed purple the poets often allude. Thus Horace:

                              Te bis Afro
                            Murice tinctæ
                          Vestiunt Lanæ.[1384]

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Footnote 1368:

  Exod. xxv. 4, sqq.

Footnote 1369:

  Il. ζ. 219. θ. 221. ρ. 547. Odyss. δ. 115. 154. τ. 225. 242. θ. 373.
  δ. 298. ι. ω. 645. 796. ι. 200. Odyss. υ. 151. Cf. Pind. Pyth. iv.
  203. 6.

Footnote 1370:

  Odyss. ξ. 53. 306.

Footnote 1371:

  Id. ν. 108.

Footnote 1372:

  See a representation of the purple fish on a red jasper in Gori, Mus.
  Florent. ii. pl. 21. fig. 4.

Footnote 1373:

  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60.

Footnote 1374:

  Arist. Hist. Anim. v. 15. p. 128, seq. Vitruv. vii. 13.

Footnote 1375:

  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60.

Footnote 1376:

  There was another purple fishery of considerable note carried on in
  the Corinthian gulf by the citizens of Bulis, a city of Phocis.
  Pausan. x. 37. 2. 3. Steph. de Urbib. p. 238. On the modern state of
  Bulis see Chandler, ii. p. 288.

Footnote 1377:

  Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

Footnote 1378:

  Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

Footnote 1379:

  Dion Chrysost. Orat. vii.

Footnote 1380:

  This fish is now abundant on the shores of Naples, where it is
  commonly eaten. Fab. Column. de Purp. iv. 1.

Footnote 1381:

  The proportion of salt was 20 oz. to 1 cwt. of the purple matter.
  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

Footnote 1382:

  The animal matter mingled with it being constantly skimmed off. Plin.
  Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

Footnote 1383:

  Plin. ix. 62. Gog. iii. 20.

Footnote 1384:

  Carm. ii. 16. 35, sqq. On this the ancient scholiast quoted by
  Bentley, says, “Bis tinctæ, dibaphæ vestes preciocissimæ.” Cf. Pompon.
  Mel. iii. 10. 35, p. 301. Gronov.

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And again where the Phœnician operation is spoken of:

                 Muricibus Tyriis iteratæ vellera lanæ
                 Cui properabantur?[1385]

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Footnote 1385:

  Epod. xii. 21, seq.

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Elsewhere in enumerating the things, wherein the vulgar pride
themselves, he once more enumerates purple garments—

         Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena sigilla, tabellas,
         Argentum, vestes Gætulo murice tinctas,
         Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere.[1386]

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Footnote 1386:

  Epist. ii. 2. 180, seq.

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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)St. John, James Augustus

History

The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

St. John, James Augustus

Greece -- Social life and customs

was suffered to remain till it imbibed the whole of the dye.[1383] To
this double-dyed purple the poets often allude. Thus Horace:

                              Te bis Afro
                            Murice tinctæ
                          Vestiunt Lanæ.[1384]

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Footnote 1368:

  Exod. xxv. 4, sqq.

Footnote 1369:

  Il. ζ. 219. θ. 221. ρ. 547. Odyss. δ. 115. 154. τ. 225. 242. θ. 373.
  δ. 298. ι. ω. 645. 796. ι. 200. Odyss. υ. 151. Cf. Pind. Pyth. iv.
  203. 6.

Footnote 1370:

  Odyss. ξ. 53. 306.

Footnote 1371:

  Id. ν. 108.

Footnote 1372:

  See a representation of the purple fish on a red jasper in Gori, Mus.
  Florent. ii. pl. 21. fig. 4.

Footnote 1373:

  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60.

Footnote 1374:

  Arist. Hist. Anim. v. 15. p. 128, seq. Vitruv. vii. 13.

Footnote 1375:

  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60.

Footnote 1376:

  There was another purple fishery of considerable note carried on in
  the Corinthian gulf by the citizens of Bulis, a city of Phocis.
  Pausan. x. 37. 2. 3. Steph. de Urbib. p. 238. On the modern state of
  Bulis see Chandler, ii. p. 288.

Footnote 1377:

  Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

Footnote 1378:

  Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

Footnote 1379:

  Dion Chrysost. Orat. vii.

Footnote 1380:

  This fish is now abundant on the shores of Naples, where it is
  commonly eaten. Fab. Column. de Purp. iv. 1.

Footnote 1381:

  The proportion of salt was 20 oz. to 1 cwt. of the purple matter.
  Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

Footnote 1382:

  The animal matter mingled with it being constantly skimmed off. Plin.
  Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

Footnote 1383:

  Plin. ix. 62. Gog. iii. 20.

Footnote 1384:

  Carm. ii. 16. 35, sqq. On this the ancient scholiast quoted by
  Bentley, says, “Bis tinctæ, dibaphæ vestes preciocissimæ.” Cf. Pompon.
  Mel. iii. 10. 35, p. 301. Gronov.

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And again where the Phœnician operation is spoken of:

                 Muricibus Tyriis iteratæ vellera lanæ
                 Cui properabantur?[1385]

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Footnote 1385:

  Epod. xii. 21, seq.

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Elsewhere in enumerating the things, wherein the vulgar pride
themselves, he once more enumerates purple garments—

         Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena sigilla, tabellas,
         Argentum, vestes Gætulo murice tinctas,
         Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere.[1386]

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Footnote 1386:

  Epist. ii. 2. 180, seq.

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