Note 26 — D. (continued 2)
Reading edition
‘Among other things, there was purple of Hermione (?) to the amount of five thousand talents.’ (Plutarch’s Lives, translated by Langhorne, Wrangham’s edition, vol. v. p. 240.) Horace celebrates the Laconian dye in the following lines:—
Nec Laconicas mihi Trahunt honestæ purpuras clientæ. (Carm., lib. ii., Ode 18.)