ERRATA AND ADDENDA. 



Page 18, six lines from the bottom of the page, after the word "admis- 

 sible," add , " and where copies of natural objects should seldom be 

 introduced." 



Page 80, line 19, on the words " three purples," add this note : — 



* " The purple of Tyre was extracted from the Murex and the 

 Buccinum ; but the Helix Ianthina (still so common on that coast), 

 is the shell from which they probably first obtained it, as it proclaims 

 the secret of its possessing the purple dye by the colour it throws 

 out, like the Sepia, on being approached. This accords with the 

 story of its accidental discovery by the clog of Hercules, which would 

 not have been made from the Murex or the Buccinum ; and if these 

 gave a dye superior to that of the Helix Ianthina, their properties 

 were found out by subsequent experiment, their colour not being at 

 first purple. Indeed they only produced a good dye by being used 

 together, and by a long process ; while that of the Helix Ianthina is 

 at once a pure and true purple. (See my note, and the woodcut in 

 Herodotus, book iii. ch. 20, n. 2, Tr. Rawlinson.) The Phoenicians 

 imported purple from Hermione in Argolis, Cytherea, &c. ; and Ezekiel, 

 xxvii. 7, says it came to Tyre ' from the Isles of Elishah ' (Hellas, or 

 Greece); it has therefore been thought that this was different from the 

 original purple of Phoenicia, which accords with the above statement." 



Page 242, line 5, on " Flaxman," add this note : — 



* "Like the Greeks, he felt, the impropriety of displaying grief in 

 sculpture ; and though the Greeks in writing used a stronger ex- 

 pression than our ' indulged in grief (as in the ' Terapiru'/j.e(rda 70010' 

 of Homer, U. \p. 10), they abstained from representing the suffer- 

 ing countenance in sculpture and painting ; as we even see in a fresco 

 representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, given in Gell's Pompeii " 



Page 266, line 2, for "finished houses," read "furnished houses." 

 Page 302, line 19, on " Homeric age," add this note : — 



* "Cf. II. \fi. 743, the Sidonian crater offered as a prize by Achilles, 

 at the funeral games of Patroclus." 



