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“Colour Blindess in Relation to the Homeric Expressions for Colour”, from Nature Magazine, volume 18, p. 676, 1878.
“In an article on “The Colour Sense” in the Number of the Nineteenth Century for October last, Mr. Gladstone points out certain peculiarities…in the expressions of colour used by Homer. “Although” he says “this writer has used light in various forms for his purposes with perhaps greater splendor and effect than any other poet, yet the colour adjectives and colour descriptions of the poems are not only imperfect but highly ambiguous and confused”. And again-“we find that his sense of colour was not only narrow, but also vague, and wanting in description”.