[Footnote 47: A compound of vermilion and cinnabar, which
marks the Imperial diplomas from Leo I. (A.D. 470) to the
fall of the Greek empire, (Bibliotheque Raisonnee de la
Diplomatique, tom. i. p. 504 - 515 Lami, de Eruditione
Apostolorum, tom. ii. p. 720 - 726.)]