: ADDENDA. 
‘Ovid fays, : es ae | 
Nee quae de Tyrio murice lana rubet. 
And Virgil, | | 
Lyrioque ardebat murice lena. ; 3 nL. ape 
The fame Author elfewhere ae pa Purple of Oe i | 
Ut gemma bibat, et Sarrano dormiat oftro. Bae 
__ From hence Milton takes occafion to defcribe the Drefs of the -Arch~ 
angel defcending to the Earth. ; ° 
eee O'er his lucid Arms 
A military Veft of Purple flow d, 
Livelier than Melibean, or the Grain 
Of Sarra, worn by Kings and Heroes old. 
Tarentum feems to be one of thofe Places for preparing the Purple 
Dye, efpecially, as Pény obferves, in the Time of Auguffus ; and the 
Ruins of the Buildings, as well as Heaps of broken Shells, remain’d 
there for feveral Ages after. As thefe Shells producing the Purple 
were found in the Mediterranean, this will perhaps help us to under- 
ftand the Force of that Line of Virgil, 
In mare purpureusm violentior influit amnis. 
; Georg. IV. v. 373. 
Virgil \ikewife alludes to this, when he fays, 
ad ‘ Lumenque jiventa 
bs , 5) 4 “ we ‘ 3 
Purpureum, & letos oculis affidrat honores. ~~ 
The fame Poet, defcribing the Funeral of Palas, gives us to under= 
ftand that this Colour was of great Efteem : 
Tune geminas veftes aurogue oftroque rigentes 
Extulit Aineas : quas illi leta laborum 
Ipfa Juis quondam manibus Sidonia Dido 
Fecerat, & tenui telas difcreverat auro. Zin, XI. 72. 
In 
+ Sar was the Name of a Phenician Citys afterwards called Tyre, 
