Iren. They have another custome from the Scythians, that is the wearing of Mantles, [o 1] and long glibbes, which is a thicke curled bush of haire, hanging downe over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them, which are both very bad and hurtfull,.
Eudox. Doe vou thinke that the mantle commeth from the Scythians? I would surely think otherwise, for by that which I have read, it appeareth that most nations of the world aunciently used the mantle. For the Iewes used it, as you may read of Elyas mantle, &c. The Chaldees also used it, as yee may read in Diodorus. The Egyptians likewise used it, as yee may read in Herodotus, and may be gathered by the description of Berenice, in the Greeke Commentary upon Callimachus. The Greekes also used it aunciently, as appeareth by Venus mantle lyned with stairs, though afterwards [o 2] they changed the form
- ↑ and long glibbes, &c] " In Terconnell the haire of their head growes so long and curled, that they goe bare-headed, and are called Glibs; the women Glibbins." Gainsford's Glory of England, 4to. Lond. 1618, p. 151. Todd.
- ↑ they changed the form thereof into their cloakes called Pallia,"] As the Romans had their gowne called toga, so the ancient outward vestiment of the Grecians was called Pallium, by some translated a mantle, although it be now commonly taken for a cloake, which doth indeed somewhat resemble a mantle. By these different kinds of habit, the one was so certainly distinguished from the other, that the word togatus was often used to signifie a Roman, and Palliatus a Grecian, as it is observed by [i 1] Mr. Tho. Godwin out of [i 2] Sigonius. "Togati (saith he) pro Romanis
