Vergilian Colour Concordance

My dissertation is essentially about colour terminology in Vergil, so I've started work on a Vergilian Colour Concordance. It's relaxing in a strange sort of way.

So far I've got through six Eclogues. Topping the tables at the moment is viridis (6 instances) - the surprise runner-up is palleo (4 instances, all in participle form). The most vivid extract has been the single instance of sanguineus - 'he smeared his forehead and temples with blackberries the colour of blood' - (sanguineis frontem moris et tempora pingit 6.22), while the most appealing has been the image of the little green lizards hiding from the midday heat in the undergrowth (2.8). The run-away favourite is Eclogue 4, in which Vergil is dreaming of his bright new future, where all parts of the earth shall produce all things and 'wool shall not learn to counterfeit different colours, but of himself the ram in the meadows shall change his fleece, to sweetly blushing purple, now to a saffron yellow; of its own accord scarlet shall clothe the grazing lambs.' (nec varios discet mentiri lana colores / ipse sed in pratis aries iam suave rubenti / murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto; / sponte sua sandyx pascentis vestiet agnos - Ecl. 4.42-45) But that's a given. What's not to like about crimson lambs bouncing about like poppies on speed?