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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 83 — ARCHIL.

William Johnston translation

As the archil grows in the African islands, and on the coast of Africa, Glass supposes that the Getulian purple of the ancients was dyed with it; but this opinion is improbable, for Horace praises “Gætula murice tinctas vestes.”

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