The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . us. II The crescent is seen upon the standards of the Roman centuries, probably to denote the number 100. 224 JULIUS C^SAR. died during tlie reign of Augustus ; Pliny, ix. 39), the violet purple was fashionable, and soldfor a hundred denarii the pound. Some time afterwards the red purple of Tarentum came intovogue, and to this succeeded the red Tyrian twice dyed, which was not to be bought under onethousand denarii. Here, then, we have three sorts of purple worn during the life of one red purple is mentioned by Macrobius: he says the r
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . us. II The crescent is seen upon the standards of the Roman centuries, probably to denote the number 100. 224 JULIUS C^SAR. died during tlie reign of Augustus ; Pliny, ix. 39), the violet purple was fashionable, and soldfor a hundred denarii the pound. Some time afterwards the red purple of Tarentum came intovogue, and to this succeeded the red Tyrian twice dyed, which was not to be bought under onethousand denarii. Here, then, we have three sorts of purple worn during the life of one red purple is mentioned by Macrobius: he says the redness of the purple border of the togaprastexta was admonitory to those who assumed it to preserve the modesty of demeanour becomingyoung noblemen j and VirgU says that the sacrificing priest should cover his head with purplewithout noticing whether its hue be red or violet. Indeed, purple was a term applied indiscrimmately by the ancients to every tint produced by the mixture of red and blue, and sometimes tothe pure colours tliemselves. J R P. [Plebeians.] 225 x-iM-) ^dm^
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