![]() ![]() 1439, and consequently before the Exodus (Suidas, s.v. 500 others at the time that Minos I reigned in Crete, B.C. Some place it in the reign of Phoenix, second king of Tyre, B.C. Different accounts are given by the ancients respecting the date and origin of this invention. There is, however, no reason to doubt that it was obtained, like the far-famed Tyrian purple, from the juice of certain species of shell-fish. but no reference occurs to the means by which the dye was obtained, except in 1 Macc. In many of these passages the word translated "purple" means "purple cloth," or some other material dyed purple, as wool, thread, etc.
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