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is ſcarce, and found only in ſmall Quantities; whereas there are ſometimes whole Veins of the others. Ochre is ſaid to be found generally heaped together; and Reddle ſcattered, as it were, every way. Painters uſe this Reddle in their Pictures, as alſo Ochre, inſtead of Orpiment; for when powdered they ſcarce at all differ in Colour, however different they appear in the Maſs.
XCI. There are alſo in ſome Places peculiar Pits of Reddle and Ochre, as in Cappadocia, from whence they are taken in vaſt Quantities: But in theſe Pits, it is ſaid, the Labourers are in Dan-
reality, no other than a double Error; in the Words, and in the Pointing: And what Pliny meant to have ſaid is evidently no other than this, Rubricam Milton Græci vocant, & Minium Cinnabari. The Greeks call Reddle Miltos, and Minium Cinnabar, which is exactly the Truth, And the Paſſage, as thus reſtored by Salmaſius, ſtands accordingly, Jam enim Trojanis temporibus rubrica in honore erat, qui naves ea commendat, alias circa picturas, pigmentaque rarus. Milton vocant Græci, miniumque Cinnabari. Homer, ſpeaking of the Grecian Ships, has Νῆας μιλτοπαρήους, and it is impoſſible he ſhould mean by it, that they were ſtained with the Minium, or Cinnabar, which was not known till after his Time, as we ſhall ſee by this Author's Account of it. Cinnabar was originally the Indian Name of the Gum we now call Sanguis Draconis; and was given to this other Subſtance (called alſo Minium,) from its Reſemblance to that Drug in Colour.
