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PUR 19I
PROSPERITY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a wo-
man richly clad, in one hand a cornucopia heaped up with mo-
ney, in the other an oak-branch, with acorns and violets upon
her head.— The horn of plenty rilled denotes money neceffary
to lead a profperous life ; the oak, long life abfolutely neceffary
to itj as do the purple violets that always produce flowers.
Marcello PROVENZALE da Cento, the fcholar of Paulo
RolTeti, Jived at Rome, excelled in hiitory, and in mofaic
works fuperior to any; died in the year 1639. aged fixty-fcur
years.
PRUDENCE, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
with two faces, a gilded helmet on her head, a flag by her, a
looking-glafs in her left hand, in her right an arrow, and a re-
mora nfh twifted about it. — The helmet fignines the wifdom
of a prudent man, to be armed with wife counfel to defend him-
felf; the Hag fhewing that we fhould ruminate before refolving
on a thing, the mirrour bids us examine our defects by knowing
ourfelves ; the remora that flops a fhip, not to delay doing good
when the time ferves.
P. S. F. Hands for Peter Stefanoni fecit; this artift engraved
Caracci's works.
PURPLE, is a red colour bordering on violet, made princi-
pally with cochineal.
Purple was in high efteem among the ancients, efpecially the
Tyrian Purple, which palled through more dyes than the reft ;
and which colour was in a manner almoft peculiar to kings and
emperors.
Yet this Purple did not exceed that now in ufe ; the chief rea-
fons why the former has been difufedj are, that our modern
Purple is not only cheaper but finer.
The ancient or Tyrian Purple was tinged or dyed with the
blood of a teftaceous fhell-hfh, which the Latins call purpura.
There is now found about Nicoya in the Spanifh Weft-Indies
a fnell-fifh, which perfectly refembles the ancient purpura, and
is in all probability the very fame.
Gage relates of this hfh, that it ufually lives feven years; that
it hides itfelf upon the approach of the dog-days, and continues
hid for 300 days running.
Thefe hfhes are gathered plentifully in the fpring, and, by
rubbing one againft another, yield a kind offaliva or thick glairs
refembling foft wax ; but the Purple dye is faid to be in the
throat of the nfh, and the fineft part in a little white vein \ the
reft of the body is of no ufe. He adds, that the chief riches of
Nicoya confift in this nfh.
Cloth of Segovia, dyed with this Purple iiquor5 is fold for 20
Vol. II O crown*
PROSPERITY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a wo-
man richly clad, in one hand a cornucopia heaped up with mo-
ney, in the other an oak-branch, with acorns and violets upon
her head.— The horn of plenty rilled denotes money neceffary
to lead a profperous life ; the oak, long life abfolutely neceffary
to itj as do the purple violets that always produce flowers.
Marcello PROVENZALE da Cento, the fcholar of Paulo
RolTeti, Jived at Rome, excelled in hiitory, and in mofaic
works fuperior to any; died in the year 1639. aged fixty-fcur
years.
PRUDENCE, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
with two faces, a gilded helmet on her head, a flag by her, a
looking-glafs in her left hand, in her right an arrow, and a re-
mora nfh twifted about it. — The helmet fignines the wifdom
of a prudent man, to be armed with wife counfel to defend him-
felf; the Hag fhewing that we fhould ruminate before refolving
on a thing, the mirrour bids us examine our defects by knowing
ourfelves ; the remora that flops a fhip, not to delay doing good
when the time ferves.
P. S. F. Hands for Peter Stefanoni fecit; this artift engraved
Caracci's works.
PURPLE, is a red colour bordering on violet, made princi-
pally with cochineal.
Purple was in high efteem among the ancients, efpecially the
Tyrian Purple, which palled through more dyes than the reft ;
and which colour was in a manner almoft peculiar to kings and
emperors.
Yet this Purple did not exceed that now in ufe ; the chief rea-
fons why the former has been difufedj are, that our modern
Purple is not only cheaper but finer.
The ancient or Tyrian Purple was tinged or dyed with the
blood of a teftaceous fhell-hfh, which the Latins call purpura.
There is now found about Nicoya in the Spanifh Weft-Indies
a fnell-fifh, which perfectly refembles the ancient purpura, and
is in all probability the very fame.
Gage relates of this hfh, that it ufually lives feven years; that
it hides itfelf upon the approach of the dog-days, and continues
hid for 300 days running.
Thefe hfhes are gathered plentifully in the fpring, and, by
rubbing one againft another, yield a kind offaliva or thick glairs
refembling foft wax ; but the Purple dye is faid to be in the
throat of the nfh, and the fineft part in a little white vein \ the
reft of the body is of no ufe. He adds, that the chief riches of
Nicoya confift in this nfh.
Cloth of Segovia, dyed with this Purple iiquor5 is fold for 20
Vol. II O crown*