336 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTORY. (J* ook 



I shall describe the mode of dyeing the other kinds of wool 

 when speaking of the sea-purple, 45 or of the nature of various 

 plants. 46 



CHAP. 74. DIFFERENT KINDS OF CLOTHS. 



Yarro informs us, he himself having been an eye-witness, that 

 in the temple of Sancus, 47 the wool was still preserved on the 

 distaif and spindle of Tanaquil, 48 who was also called Caia Cae- 

 cilia ; and he says that the royal waved 49 toga, formerly worn by 

 Servius Tullius, and now in the temple of Fortune, was made 

 by her. Hence was derived the custom, on the marriage of a 

 young woman, of carrying in the procession a dressed distaff 

 and a spindle, with the thread arranged upon it. Tanaquil was 

 the first who wove the straight tunic, 50 such as our young 

 people wear with the white toga ; 51 newly-married women also. 

 Waved garments were at first the most esteemed of all : after 

 which those composed of various colours 52 came into vogue. 

 Fenestella informs us, that togas with a smooth surface, as well 



convenient " lacerna" and " pamula," which were less encumbered with 

 folds, and better adapted for the usual occupations of life. B. 

 45 See B. ix. c. 62. 46 See B. xxi. c. 12. 



47 This deity was also called Sangus, or Semo Sancus ; and Ovid, Fasti, 

 B. vi. c. 216, et seq., gives us much information concerning him. He was 

 of Sabine origin, and identical with Hercules and Dius Fidius. If we 

 may judge from the derivation of the name, it is not improbable that he 

 presided over the sanctity of oaths. His temple at Rome was on the 

 Quirinal, opposite to that of Quirinus, and near the gate which from him 

 derived the name of " Sanqualis porta." He was said to have been the 

 father of the Sabine hero Sabus. 



48 According to the commonly received account, Tanaquil was the wife 

 of Tarquinius Priscus, and a native of Etruria ; when she removed to 

 Rome, and her husband became king, her name was changed to Caia 

 Caecilia. B. 



49 "Undulata;" it has been suggested that this means the same as our 

 stuffs which we term " watered." B. 



50 " Tunica recta ;" according to Festus, it was " so called from being 

 woven perpendicularly by people standing." B. It probably means woven 

 from top to bottom and cross-wise in straight lines. 



51 " Toga pura;" so called from being white, without a mixture of any 

 other colour. 



52 " Sororiculata ;" there is much uncertainty respecting the derivation 

 of this word and its meaning, but it is generally supposed to signify some 

 kind of stuff, composed of a mixture of different ingredients or of different 

 colours. B. " Orbiculata," " with round spots," is one reading, and 

 probably the correct one. 



