[174] De Somniis, vol. i. p. 653. Yates, p. 271.
[175] Philo, cited by Yates, p. 271.
[176] Paulinus ad Cytherium, cited by Yates, p. 273.
[177] Herodotus, l. ii. c. 182, l. iii. c. 47. Rawlinson’s Trans.
[178] Proverbs vii. 16.
[179] Yates, p. 291. Denon describes a tunic found in a sarcophagus, which he examined, and says: “The weaving was extremely loose, of thread as fine as a hair, of two strands of twisted flax fibre.”—Auberville’s “Ornement des Tissus,” p. 4. Some marvellously fine specimens of such cambric may be seen at the South Kensington Museum and the British Museum.
[180] Not that we have any remains of flax linen from their tombs.
[181] It was carried thence, at a prehistoric date, to Assyria and Egypt.
[182] There is no proof that it was grown in Egypt till the fourteenth century A.D., when it is mentioned for the first time in a MS. of that date of the “Codex Antwerpianus.” See Yates, Appendix E, p. 470.
[183] Birdwood, p. 241.