Note 15 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE
Reading edition
The exactness, brilliancy, and range of Vergil’s color words are studied by T. R. Price, The Color-System of Vergil, American Journal of Philology, volume 4, number 13 (1882). See the more extensive work of Hugo Blümner, Die Farbenbezeichnungen bei den römischen Dichtern, Berliner Studien, volume 13 (1891).