apo Phyfical mid Mtjcellaneous 



Yards long and five or fix Foot broad, ferving the Kahyle and 

 ArabioiX a compleat Drefs in the Day, and for hisBed and Cover- 

 ing in the Night. It is a loofe but troublefome Kind of Gar- 

 eafdydifcon- iTient , bcittg frequently difconcerted and falling upon the 

 ccrted. Ground, fo that the Perfon who wears it, is every moment ob- 

 liged to tuck it up, and fold it anew about his Body. This 

 lliews the great Ufe there is for a Girdle in attending any adlive 

 Employment, and in Confequence thereof, the Force of the 

 Scripture Injundlion, alluding thereunto, of ha'ving our Loyns 

 girded '. The Method of wearing thefe Garments », with the 

 Ufe they are at other Times put to, in ferving for Coverlets 

 to their Beds, fliould induce us to take the finer Sorts of them 

 at leafl , fuch as are wore by the Ladies and Perfons of Di- 

 3T&^pepius ftin6lion, to be the Teplus of the Antients. It is very pro- 

 yin'tients. baWc likcwife , that the loofe folding Garment (the Toga ' I 

 take it to be ) of the Romans, was of this Kind : for if the 

 Drapery of their Statues is to inftruft us. This is adlually no 

 other than what the Arahs appear in, when they are folded 

 up in their Hyhes. Inftead of MhQ Fibula, they joyn together, 

 with Thread or a wooden Bodkin, the two upper Corners of 

 this Garment, which being firft placed over one of their Shoul- 

 ders, they fold the reft of it afterwards round their Bodies. 

 7^. Bur- The Burnoofe, (as they call their Cloak or upper Garment,) 

 is likewife made in thefe "Don-wars and Dajhkras : though 

 there are Looms, both for It and the Hyhe , in moft of the 

 Towns and Villages. It is of one Piece, fliaped like the Gar- 



I Thus -^l^dmyii is ufed Luke 17. 8. Acis 12. 8. Eph. 6. 14. Rev. i. 13. and ly. 6. And 

 dLia^cinvfu iPet. I. 13. 2 Kin^s 4. 29. and 9. I. &c. EJ/z^savflf joyned with a.fM^-na Heb.iz.l. 

 i. e. Sin which is fo well fitted to gird us in, is alfo well illuftrated by the Fafhion, and Manner 

 of wearing thefe Garments. 2 J. Pollux (1. 7. c. 13.) defcribes the Ufe of the neTAo? to 

 be hjlaiou 71 19 ^Sdt^i^, ad induendum & infternendum : and in the latter of thele Significa- 

 tions it is ufed by Homer. II. e. v. 194, 



— — — A/-(?/ 3 Trc-Tthoi 



ni-nliujeu. 

 The Scholiaftupon II. E. v. 734- makes the Peplus to be a Garment that was fitted to the 

 Body by a Fibula, juft as the Hyke is, ov (fays he) vk 'm/ioyn, «w>' imfoyayn : and fo Callimach. 

 in Lavacr. Pallad. v. 70. 



Lutatius upon Statius's Thebais v. loi. calls it Veftis Candida. That it was alfo a large Gar- 

 ment, hanging down to the Feet, &c. appears from the following Epithets that are given 

 to it by the Antients. Thus Euripides (in Bacch. v. 40.) calls them 'jI'tcMi mtf^^M. JE/chylus 

 (in Choxph. v. looo.) mifisTifcu TWMif. Homer (in II. Z, v. 442.) sMtftnm'iT^w j and again Od.^. 

 V. 30f. ■mvim-jrhov. ^ Toga dida, quod Velamento fui corpus tegat atque operiat. Eft autem 

 pallium purum forma rotunda & fufiore, & quafi inundante finu & fub dextro veniens, 

 fuper burner urn finiftr ton ponitur: cujus fimilitudinem in operimentis Gmulachrorum vel piftu- 

 rarum afpicimus, eafque ftatuas togatas vocamus. Menfura Togae iuftae, fi fex ulneas habeat. 

 Jfid. Orig. 1. 19. cap. 24. 



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noofe 



