[1395]. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 6. 9. Cf. Fab. Column. de Purp. i. 13. Don Juan Pablo Canáls Y Martí, Memorias sobra la Purpura de los Antiguos. c. v. Phile, De Animal. Proprietat. c. xliii. p. 172, sqq. appears to describe, though in an indistinct and imperfect manner, the cochineal insect among the productions of India.
[1396]. Beckmann, ii. 171.
[1397]. Herod. iii. 139.
[1398]. Plut. Thes. § 17. In later times we find Alcibiades, on his return to Athens, hoisting purple sails in the Admiral’s galley. Plut. Alcib. § 32.
[1399]. Schol. Aristoph. Pac. 1140. ad Acharn. 118. Cf. Plin. xxiv. 4.
[1400]. Virg. Eclog. iv. 45. Beckmann, History of Inventions, iii. 256—note.
[1401]. Poll. vii. 13.
[1402]. Ισάτις ἥμερος. Dioscor. ii. 215. Cf. Aristoph. Cimon. 332. Nub. 71. Dioscor. iii. 160.
[1403]. Beckmann, History of Inventions, t. iii. p. 255.
[1404]. Dioscor. v. 141.