Note (6) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
6. Melinum.) As our author in this place mentions only simples, he cannot intend by this word, oil of quinces; so that it must either be a kind of colour that came from Melos, or else the Melian allum; in which last sense the comma ought to be expunged betwixt alumen, and Melinum.—But it is necessary to observe, that our author mentioning this species of allum in the sixth book, calls it Alumen Melium, which in other editions is Alumen Melinum.