. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. Pliny mentions four kinds of linen par-ticularly noted in Egypt, the Tanitic,the Pelusiac, the Butine, and the Ten-tyritic; and the same fineness of tex-ture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they couldpass .thiOugh a mans ri
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . No. Pliny mentions four kinds of linen par-ticularly noted in Egypt, the Tanitic,the Pelusiac, the Butine, and the Ten-tyritic; and the same fineness of tex-ture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they couldpass .thiOugh a mans ring, and a singleperson could cany a sufficient numberof them to surround a whole wood.(Plin. xix. 1. On the Byssus, see note ^ Chap. 37. ADVANTAGES EXJOYED BY THE PRIESTS. 55 vantages.^ They consume none of their own property, and areat no expense for anything ;^ but every day bread is baked forthem of the sacred com, and a plentiful supply of beef and of ch. 86.) The transparent fineness of thelinen dresses of men and women in theEgyptian paintings recalls the remark ofSeneca (de Benef. vii. 9) on sericasvestes, so thin that a woman appearedas if naked.—[G. W.] ^ Their sandals were made of thepapyrus, or of other kinds of Cyperus;an inferior quality being of mattedpalm-leaves ; and they either slept ona simple skin stretched on the
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