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old men are from this skin called diphtheriae^ and 

 in comedies those who work on the farm;' witness 

 the young man in the Hypobolimaeus of Caeci- 

 lius, and the old man in Terence's Heauton- 

 12 timorumenus. Goats are shorn owing to the 

 length of their hair over a large part of Phrygia ^ 

 and from this country come to us hair-cloths and 

 other fabrics of the same kind. But it is said that 

 as such shearing was first practised in Cilicia, 



I the Cilicians affixed the name (Cilicia) to the 

 product. 

 Here the conversation ended, and Cossinius 

 found nothing to alter in what had been said. And 

 at that moment Vitulus's'' freedman, coming out 

 from the park on his way to the city, turned off 

 to us and said: I was sent to you, and was on my 

 way to your house to ask you not to shorten the 

 holiday, but to come at once. And so, Turranius 



' Rustico opere. * * On trouve encore les diphthkres en France au 

 XI Xe Steele: tons les pay sans du Maine et des frontikres de la 

 Bretagne . . . sont vitus de peaux de chevre.^^ — Dureau de la 

 Malle, Insc. et Belles Lettres, 27 avril 1827. 



' Phrygiae. Dureau de la Malle thinks that these long- 

 haired Phrygian goats are Angoras: ^' VidentiU des lieux, le 

 caractkre des oreilles longues et pendantes (Aristotle, H. A., viii, 

 28), et la circonstance de la grande longueur des polls . . . 

 nou^ font reconnaitre la race des chkvres d^ Angora^ Probably, 

 therefore, these fabrics {cilicia) of goats' hair were fine and 

 soft, not resembling the hair-shirt (cilices) of the mediaeval 

 ascetic. 



' Vituli. This is the first time that Vitulus has been men- 

 tioned. The name is given ii, 1, 10, as a cognomen of the 

 Pomponii. 





