Really interesting, but I thought this was a bit weak:<p>> Alexander the Great dressed in robes, some “of crimson, some of purple, some of murrey, and some of orange colour velvet.” The translator is confident that “murrey” will be identifiable—it is a reddish purple, the color of mulberries—but he needs to add the noun “colour” after “orange” for its meaning to be clear.<p>I would read that as a list of things, each of which is a colour of velvet.