[748] Vita Agesilai, p. 602. See also Hellenica, lib. iv.
[749] Cyropædia, lib. viii., where he mentions χειρίδας δασείας. The Greeks and the Romans, however, did not wear gloves.
[750] Ammian. Marcell. xxii. 5, p. 232.
[751] Lib. v. 41.
[752] Annal. lib. xiii. In Athenæus, Deipnos. v. p. 197, Callixenus describes Persian counterpanes with figures representing animals, but I do not know whether I ought not, with Valois, to consider them as painted leather, or rather worked tapestry.
[753] Digest. lib. xxxix. tit. 4, 16, 7, or L. ult. § 7, de publicanis. In Gronovii Geographia Antiqua, p. 261, it is said that a great trade was carried on in Cappadocia with Babylonian leather. The vestes leporinæ appear to have been made of the hair of the Angora rabbits.
[754] L. 7, C. de excus. mun. or Cod. lib. 10, tit. 47, 7.
[755] Chardin, iv. p. 245.
[756] De Rebus Geticis, cap. 3, p. 612.
[757] History of the Germans, vol. ii.