ADDENDA. 
By the Help of this Diftin@tion between thefe twa Colours, we fhall 
be able to throw Light upon feveral Paffages in the Claflic Authors, 
otherwife obfcure; among thefe that of Horace : 
---- Te bis Afro 
Murice tine ) 
V eftiunt lane. ; 
Lib. II. Od. 16. 
The dis tinéfe hath been generally underftood by Critics of Cloth 
double-dy’d in the fame Materials, to give it a deeper Dye; but may 
not we be of Opinion, that this fo much valued Zyrian Purple receiy’d 
firft the Tin@ture of the Violet Colour mentioned as above? This being 
afterwards dyed in the deep Zyrian Red, the fecond Dying added a 
Rednefs to it, which could not have been done by being double-dyed 
in the Violet Colour. 
That there was one Kind of the Purple of the Antients of a deep Red, | 
like Blood, is evident from that beautiful Allufion of Hlomer : 
Tov de 
Eaabe wropquciog Suvaros x’ moro xperein. 
BPs Eeaig 1 
From the above-mentioned Mixture of the Violet Colour, and the 
deep. Zyrian Red, arofe the moft beautiful, and fo valuable flaming 
Purple, varying in Degrees, as the Violet, or the Zyrian Red, prevail’d. 
Thefe two Colours feem to be hinted at by Catullus, who, {peaking of 
the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis, fays, 
Tinka tegit rofeo conchylis purpura fuco. 
And that the latter of thefe was more valuable, appears from its far 
greater Price, as well as from its being more frequently defcrib’d as the 
moft diftinguifhing Mark of Royalty.” Thus /; irgil, 
| -Et princeps Tyrio vefhem pretexuit oftro. 
And Claudian, {peaking of the Marriage of Fonorius, fays, 
Amplexu caleat purpura regio 
Et veftes Tyrio fanguine Sulsidas : 
Alter virgineus nobilitet cruor, Lib.'5. Ve 114. 
_ Many likewife are the Inftances in Claflic Authors, to prove that 
it is the peculiar Property of the Zyrian Murex to dye red, or of a 
‘crimfon Colour. 
Ovid 
