[43] [Footnote 41: Read and feel the xxiid book of the Iliad, a living picture of manners, passions, and the whole form and spirit of the chariot race West's Dissertation on the Olympic Games (sect.
xii .-- xvii.) affords much curious and authentic information.] [Footnote 42: The four colors, albati, russati, prasini, veneti, represent the four seasons, according to Cassiodorus, (Var.iii.

51,) who lavishes much wit and eloquence on this theatrical mystery.

Of these colors, the three first may be fairly translated white, red, and green.
Venetus is explained by coeruleus, a word various and vague: it is properly the sky reflected in the sea; but custom and convenience may allow blue as an equivalent, (Robert.Stephan.sub voce.

Spence's Polymetis, p.

228.)] [Footnote 43: See Onuphrius Panvinius de Ludis Circensibus, l.i.c.