A dictionary of Greek and Roman . they were frequently left,being considered ornamental. Often also, to pre-vent them from ravelling, and to give a still moreartificial and ornamental appearance, they wereseparated into bundles, each of which was twisted(aTp€WTo?s Svadvois, Brunck, 416), andtied in one or more knots. The thrums were thus,by a very simple process, transformed into a row oftassels. The linen shirts, found in Egyptian tombs,sometimes show this ornament among their loweredge, and illustrate, in a very interesting manner,the description of these garments by He
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . they were frequently left,being considered ornamental. Often also, to pre-vent them from ravelling, and to give a still moreartificial and ornamental appearance, they wereseparated into bundles, each of which was twisted(aTp€WTo?s Svadvois, Brunck, 416), andtied in one or more knots. The thrums were thus,by a very simple process, transformed into a row oftassels. The linen shirts, found in Egyptian tombs,sometimes show this ornament among their loweredge, and illustrate, in a very interesting manner,the description of these garments by Herodotus(ii. 81). Among the Greeks and Romans fringeswere seldom worn except by females (KpoaacvrbvXiTcSva, Brunck, ii. 525 ; Jacobs, &c. ad loc. ;Pollux, vii. 64 ; Sueton. Jul. 45). Of their mannerof displaying them the best idea may be formed bythe inspection of the annexed woodcut, taken froma small bronze, representing a Roman lady whowears an inner and an outer tunic, the latter beingfringed, and over these a large shawl or Among barbarous nations the amictus was oftenWorn by men with a fringe, as is seen very con-spicuously in the group of Sarmatians at p. 213By crossing the bundles of thrums, and tyingthem at the points of intersection, a kind of net-work was produced, and we are informed of afringe of this description, which was, moreover,hung with bells. (Diod. xviii. 26.) The ancientsalso manufactured fringes separately, and sewedthem to the borders of their garments. They were FISCUS 537likewise made of gold thread and other costlymaterials. Of this kind was the ornament, con-sisting of a hundred golden tassels, which sur-rounded the mythical shield of Jupiter, the alyis&v(rav6e<T(Ta, and which depended from the girdleof Juno. (Horn. II. ii. 448, v. 738, xiv. 181,xvii. 593.) In consequence of the tendency of wool to formitself into separate bundles like tassels (Snjcrav-qdu^Aelian, H. A. xvi. 11), the poets speak of thegolden fleece as consisting of the
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