. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . (5 evl 7r?Aos dpfipei\], we may suppose rr~i\oS to be used in its most ordinary sense, and * Spon., Misc. Erud. Ant. § xi. art. 1. t Vol. i. No. 8. t GelPs Pompeiana, London 1819, pi. 76. § Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, London 1809, pi. 51. || Homer, II. x. 265. Eustathius, in his commentary on this passage, says, thatthe most ancient Greeks always wore felt in their helmets, but that thos

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. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . (5 evl 7r?Aos dpfipei\], we may suppose rr~i\oS to be used in its most ordinary sense, and * Spon., Misc. Erud. Ant. § xi. art. 1. t Vol. i. No. 8. t GelPs Pompeiana, London 1819, pi. 76. § Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, London 1809, pi. 51. || Homer, II. x. 265. Eustathius, in his commentary on this passage, says, thatthe most ancient Greeks always wore felt in their helmets, but that those of morerecent times, regarding this use of felt as peculiar to Ulysses, persuaded the paint-ers to exhibit him in a skull-cap, and that this was first done, according to thetradition, by the painter Apollidorus. The account of Pliny, who, together withServius (in Mn. ii. 44), represents Nicomachus, and not Apollidorus, as havingfirst adopted this idea. 18 ww. PlafelZ

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