Читать книгу The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 - Various - Страница 5
REGENT BRIDGE, EDINBURGH
THE COLOUR—BLUE
Оглавление(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
Observing in Number 323 of the MIRROR, an article respecting blue, as the appointed colour for the clothes of certain descriptions of persons, it may, perhaps, not be wholly irrelevant to observe that Bentley, in his "Dissertation on Phalaris," page 258, mentions blue as the costume of his guards, and quotes Cicero's "Tusculan Questions," lib. 5, for his authority. I cannot at present turn to the passage in Cicero, but Bentley's quotation may surely be accepted as evidence of the existence of the passage.
Twickenham. H. H.
