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pliny's NATTJEAL HISTOET. [BookYIII. 
I shall describe the mode of dyeing the other kinds of wool 
when speaking of the sea-purple/^ or of the nature of various 
plants.^^ 
CHAP. 74. DIFFEEEITT KINDS OF CLOTHS. 
Yarro informs us, he himself having been an eye-witness, that 
in the temple of Sancus,^^ the wool was still preserved on the 
distalF and spindle of Tanaquil,^^ who was also called Caia Cae- 
cilia ; and he says that the royal waved 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, such as our young 
people wear with the white toga newly-married women also. 
Waved garments were at first the most esteemed of all : after 
which those composed of various colours*^ came into vogue. 
Fenestella informs us, that togas with a smooth surface, as well 
convenient "lacerna" and " pseniila," which were less encumbered with, 
folds, and better adapted for the usual occupations of life. — B. 
45 See B. ix. c. 62. ^6 gee B. xxi. c. 12. 
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. 
4s According to the commonly received account, Tanaquil was the wife 
of Tarquinius Priscus, and a native of Etruria ; when she removed to 
Home, and her husband became king, her name was changed to Caia 
Csecilia. — B. 
^9 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 con-ect one. 
