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

by James Augustus St. John

[1375]. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 60.

[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.

[1377]. Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

[1378]. Pausan. iii. 21. 6.

[1379]. Dion Chrysost. Orat. vii.

[1380]. This fish is now abundant on the shores of Naples, where it is commonly eaten. Fab. Column. de Purp. iv. 1.

[1381]. The proportion of salt was 20 oz. to 1 cwt. of the purple matter. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

[1382]. The animal matter mingled with it being constantly skimmed off. Plin. Nat. Hist. ix. 62.

[1383]. Plin. ix. 62. Gog. iii. 20.

[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.