op2 Phyjical and Mifcellmeous 



MedalS;, Statues and Baffo Relk'vos ; the former of which ap- 

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

 Straight bo- Some of thefe People wear, underneath their Hyhes, a clofe 

 bodied Frock or Tunick {?ijtllehha 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 

 lefs than the Hjke, is to be girded about their Bodies, efpe- 

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

 ployment ; at which Time they ufually throw off their Hykes 

 and Burnoofes, and remain only in their Tunicks. Of this Kind 

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

 with, when He is faid to lay afide his Garments (»iu*ti* Tallium 

 fc. i^Teplum. Joh. 13. 4.) and to take a Tow el and gird him- 

 Jelf\ as was likewife the Fijhers Coat\ (Joh. 11.7.) which St. 

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

 what the fiune Perfon, at theCommand of the Angel, (.^<:^.ii.8.) 

 might have girded upon Him , before He is enjoy ned to cajl 

 His Garment (iM*Tioy) ahout Him. Now the Hyke and Burnoofe 

 being probably, at that Time, the (iWtiov) proper Drefs, Cloath' 

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

 to this Day, oitho, Kahyles zndy^rahs, the laying them afide, 

 or appearing without them, might, according to the Eaftern 

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

 ne F#;o« of The Girdles of thefe People are ufually of Worfted, very 

 that Girdles. ^^^^^\\y ^Qvcn iuto a Variety 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 lAw^ in the H. Scri- 

 ptures. The Turks and Arahs 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 diftinguifhed 



I Quartum genus veftlmenti eft rotundum pileolnm, quale pi(9:um in Uljffeo confpl- 

 clmus, quafi, fphaera media fit divifa: & pars una ponatur in capite : hocGraeci & noftri 

 liiitu, nonnuUi Galerum vocant, Hebraei nSJXO Mtz.nepbeth : non habet acumen in fummo, 

 nee totum ufque ad comam caput tegit, fed tertiam partem afronte inopertamrelinquit.&c, 

 Hieronjm. de Vefte Sacerdot. ad Fabiolam. 2 The Original Word is IvivJivf, which the 

 Vulgate xeaieK Tunica : othersj^mkulum, InduftumjSupercUicium &c. from iTrivJ^JofAiufuperinduor. 

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

 4 The Poiniard of the y^rab is made crooked, like the Copis or Harpe of the Antients. 

 Q^Curt. 1. 3. de reb. Alex. Copidas vocant gladios levlter curvatos falcibus fimiles. Bonarotae 

 Praef. in Dempft. Hetrur. Regal. Brevis gUdiui in arcum imvatus Harpe diaus. 



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