The antiquities of Herculaneum . and v. 191. he fays: Alba decent fufcas: albis, Cephei, placebas. Tibullus, iv. elcg. ii. Urit, feu Tyria voluit procedere Palla : Urit, feu nivea Candida velte venit. [4] It may be faid to refemble the colour of leeks, which is the fame with thatof young corn. The leek was famous among the devices of the Circenfian paffion of the ancients for the Circenfian games, and their prepoffeffions infavour of the parties, which were diftinguimed from each other by colours, arecircumftances well known. See Panvimus, i. 10. Graev. Thef. ix. p. 98. Thisdiftin&
The antiquities of Herculaneum . and v. 191. he fays: Alba decent fufcas: albis, Cephei, placebas. Tibullus, iv. elcg. ii. Urit, feu Tyria voluit procedere Palla : Urit, feu nivea Candida velte venit. [4] It may be faid to refemble the colour of leeks, which is the fame with thatof young corn. The leek was famous among the devices of the Circenfian paffion of the ancients for the Circenfian games, and their prepoffeffions infavour of the parties, which were diftinguimed from each other by colours, arecircumftances well known. See Panvimus, i. 10. Graev. Thef. ix. p. 98. Thisdiftin&ion of colours and parties took place not only in the circus, but alfo in theamphitheatre, and upon the ftage. Cajpodorus, lib. i. epiji. 2, 27, and 33. Seealfo Bulenger de Circ. cap. 48 and 49. To fuch a length was this madne-fs carried, thatin their banquets the waiters were diflinguifhed by the devices of the abovementionedparties. Seneca, epifi. xcv. and de Brevitate Vitaet cap. vii. Petronius, cap. xxviii. in J. S. Ltim/i rn irii td& t o/ltabr, 0 PLATE XXIIfiv^ 99In her left a difli [5]. Her vefl: like that of the precedingfigure flows loofe and ungirt [6]. She has not however like and his commentators. Ferrarius, 1. de Re Vejliaria, iii. 4. thinks, that from thecuftom of diftinguifhing fervants by the various colours of the Circenfian partiesarofe that of drefling our footmen in liveries ; and it is probable, that the military-uniform owes its rife to the fame original. Laftly, the laws of the emperoursmade to reprefs and reftrain in fome meafure the exorbitant expenfes the Romansincurred in decking and maintaining the charioteers of the circus, and the womenof the theatre, may be feen in tit. v, vii, and ix, of b. xv. of the TheodojianCode; where the reader may confult the very learned commentator. But thelaws availed little: this party rage ftill continued. It is obferved by hiftorians,as a remarkable circumitance, that Marcian was raifed to the empire by the
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