2^2 Thyfical and MifceUaneous 



Medals, Statues ?LnaBaffo Relievo's \ the former of which ap- 

 pears to be the fame with the Tiara ' of the Antients. 

 Straight ho• Some of thefe People wear, underneath their Hykes a clofe 

 bodied Frock or Tunick (a jillehha I think they call It) with 

 or without Sleeves, not unlike the Roman Tunica, or the 

 Habit in which the Conftellation Bootes is painted. This, no 

 iefs than the Hyke, is to be girded about their Bodies, efpe- 

 cially when they are engaged in any Labour, Exercife or Em- 

 ployment ; at which Time they ufually throw off their Hykes 

 and BurnoofeSy and remain only in their Tunicks. Of this Kind 

 probably was the Habit, which our Saviour might ftill be cloathed 

 with, when He is fa id to lay afide his Garments (ΙμίτΐΛ Τα Ilium 

 β. ^ Tedium. Joh. 13.4..) and to take a Towel and gird him- 

 felf\ as was likewife the Ftfiers Coai\ (Joh. ii. 7.) which St. 

 Teter girded about Him, when He is faid to he naked \ or 

 what the fame Perfon, at theCommand of the Angel, (^t^.ii.S.) 

 might have girded upon Him, before He is enjoyned to εαβ 

 His Garment (ιμίτιοή about Him. Now the Hyke and Burnoofe 

 being probably, at that Time, the (ιματ»ον) proper Drefs, Cloath• 

 ing, or Habit of the Eaftern Nations, as they continue to be 

 to this Day, oixh^ Kahyles znd^^rabs, the laying them afide, 

 or appearing without them, might, according to the Eaftern 

 Manner of ExpreiTion, be other Words only for being naked. 

 TheFaflnmof Thc Girdlcs of thefe People are ufually of Worfted, very 

 :he,rG,rdies. ^ftfully wovcn into a A^arlcty of Figurcs and made to wrapfe- 

 veral Times about their Bodies. One End of them, by being 

 doubled and fown along the Edges, ferves them for a Purfe, 

 agreeable to the Acceptation of the word zaw^ in the H. Scri- 

 ptures. The Turks and y^rahs make a further Ufe of their 

 Girdles by fixing their Knives and Poiniards * in them : whilft 

 the Hojias (i. e. the Writers and Secretaries) are diftinguiihed 



I Quartum genus veftimenti eft rotundum pileolnm, quale piftum in Ulyffeo conipi- 

 cimus, quafi, fphaera media fit divifa: & pars una ponatur in capite : hocGr^ci & noftri 

 Ίιίζο»^ nonnuUi Galerum vocant, Hebrsei nSJ3f23 Miznepheth : non habet acumen in fummo, 

 nee totum ufquc ad comam caput tegit, fed tertiam partem a fronte inopertam relinquit. &c. 

 Hieronym. de Vefte Sacerdot. ad Fabiolam. 2 The Original Word is wfc^r??, which the 

 Vulgate lendersTunica : others Ankulum, Indufium,Sul>ercHfcium &c. from Ι-^η^ί'^ομβΛ fuperinduou 

 Vid. Lfi^fe'sCritica Sacra, p.149, 3 Which in Mat. το. p. Mar. 6. 8. we render 4 P«r/>. 

 4 The Poiniard of the Arab is made crooked, like the Cop'is or Harpe of the Antients. 

 j^C«rf. 1. 3. de reb. Alex. Copidas vocant gUdios lev'iter curvatos falcihus fmiiles. Bonarots 

 Prsf. in Dempft. Hetrur. Regal. Brev'ts gladius in arcum curvatus Harpe diilus. 



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