269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c.

But it is almost impossible to discriminate by words all the nice and various shades both of art and nature.] [Footnote 59: By the discovery of cochineal, &c., we far surpass the colors of antiquity.

Their royal purple had a strong smell, and a dark cast as deep as bull's blood--obscuritas rubens, (says Cassiodorus, Var.
1, 2,) nigredo saguinea.

The president Goguet (Origine des Loix et des Arts, part ii.l.ii.c.2, p.

184--215) will amuse and satisfy the reader.