ADDENDA. 
In After-ages it became the diftinguithing Mark of Royalty, and 
made no fmall Part of the Treafures of the Eaftern Monarchs. For 
when Alexander the Great had defeated Darius, and taken the City of 
Sufa, he found among other Spoils to the Value of five thoufand Talents 
of Hermonic Purple, that had been laid up in Store for near two hun- 
dred Years. In Procefs of ‘Time it became (as we have faid) the Mark of 
Grandeur and Dignity : Hence to put on the Purple, was to affume the 
Government : And fometimes of Pride ; thus the rich Man is reprefented 
in Scripture to be cloathed in fine Linen, and Purple. And as the Ro- 
mans had a Law forbidding all private Perfons the Ufe of purple Gar-’ 
ments, fo likewife none but Emperors, or fupreme Magiftrates, were 
allow’d the Ufe of Purple, inftead of Ink: Hence many of the Royal 
Grants and Laws were fign’d with Purple; and Pamphilus, Abpelles’s 
Mafter, made ufe of this Liquid in painting or enamelling upon Ivory, 
‘ which was done by heating the Ivory to a great Degree, and then 
pouring into the engraved Lines this liquid Purple. Hence that Epi- 
gram of Martial, 
Encauftes Phaeton tabula tibi pittus in hac eff. 
Quid tibi vis, Dipyron qui Phaetonta facis ? 
This Colour was fo admir’d by the Antients, that the Poets 
added the Epithet Purple to every thing that was rare, bright, or va~ 
luable. Hence, by a furprifing poetic Licence, Horace, {peaking of a 
Swan, fays that he was _ 
Purpureis ales oloribus. 
P4 GE 195, Line 18, add, The Flowers are fucceeded by Snuff- 
coloured Pods, thefe are deeply channell’d, contain feveral 
thin fhelled Nuts, 
