Note 65 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS

Calabrum: ‘The beauty of the Calabrian fleece consisted in its perfect whiteness,’ which is destroyed by the dye.—coxit: here in a bad sense, as we often use ‘cook,’ ‘doctor.’—vitiato: The murex is spoiled as well as the vellus; both have violence done to their natures. Comp. Juv., 3, 20: ingenuum violarent marmora tofum. On the hard treatment of the murex, or κάλχη, see St. John, Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, 3, 225 foll.