A Little Book on Colors

...and we also see it used frequently for "beautiful."
But nothing shows off Luteum (yellow/saffron) as well as the flower of the marigold and the broom, and also the yolk of an egg. This is very similar to Croceus (saffron), but somewhat brighter; it was also called Flammeus by the ancients, because the Flaminica, wife of the Flamen, used it. In this place, Pallidus (pale) and Luridum (ghastly/lurid) can be put; this is the horrible color of the dead, and of Death itself, as poets say, and of Pluto. The former is sometimes even pleasing in a human, and lovable.

VIRIDIS (GREEN) CHAP. XII.

The multitude of plants provides an example of what sort of color Viridis is, of which there is such a variety that, although their number is infinite, yet none is quite as green as some other among them; rather, they all appear to be of different colors among themselves, which is evident in all other colors. Therefore, if this is less white or black than that, it does not for that reason lose the name of white or black. Among birds, the parrot is distinguished by this color, the bird called Viridis by some; and that which is the most joyful of all, the emerald (Smaragdus).
A genus of beetle, extremely green.

Greenness also shines most in a certain kind of beetle, which Aristotle himself mentions. Since it has a back lit and illustrated with a certain golden mark so that it seems to sustain the appearance of a small moon, it is not inelegantly called by us Cosentinians the "Horse of the Moon." We made a playful epigram about these beetles long ago:

A tiny race condemned to Sisyphian labor,
Which the Figula herself makes, and carries and carries back its balls.
Part is black, as the hand of the Ethiopians, scorched by heat, shudders.
The royal part, painted with a green color, shines.
A small mark glitters on its back, large upon the small,