Note 14 — PART VI.
Charles Lock Eastlake translation
Τὰ ἂνθη: translated flores by Calcagnini and the rest, by Goethe, die Blüthe, the bloom. That the word sometimes signified pigments is sufficiently apparent from the following passage of Suidas (quoted by Emeric David, "Discours Historiques sur la Peinture Moderne") ἂνθεσι κεκοσμημέναι, οἶον ψιμμιωίῳ φύκει καὶ τοῖς ὸμοίοις. Variis pigmentis ornatæ, ut cerussâ, fuco, et aliis similibus. (Suid. in voc. Ἐξμηθισμένας.) A panel prepared for painting, with a white ground consolidated with wax, and perhaps mastic, was found in Herculaneum.