Note 2 — BOOK III.
Thomas Roscoe translation
Di minio, a peculiar red colour, used also in oil painting, and well known to the ancients, who on festal days were accustomed to ornament with it the face of Jove's statue, as also that of the victors on days of triumph. Pliny and others explain the ancient method of employing it. The term, in its simple acceptation, means here the art of designing and colouring in miniature, (from di minio) early applied to the ornamenting and illuminating of ancient works and MSS. R.