vi.
p.

519,) the first who describes, however strangely, the Seric insect.] [Footnote 63: Tam longinquo orbe petitur, ut in publico matrona transluceat...ut denudet foeminas vestis, (Plin.vi.20, xi.

21.) Varro and Publius Syrus had already played on the Toga vitrea, ventus texilis, and nebula linen, (Horat.Sermon.i.2, 101, with the notes of Torrentius and Dacier.)] [Footnote 6311: Gibbon must have written transparent draperies and naked matrons.

Through sometimes affected, he is never inaccurate .-- M.] [Footnote 64: On the texture, colors, names, and use of the silk, half silk, and liuen garments of antiquity, see the profound, diffuse, and obscure researches of the great Salmasius, (in Hist.August.p.

127, 309, 310, 339, 341, 342, 344, 388--391, 395, 513,) who was ignorant of the most common trades of Dijon or Leyden.] [Footnote 65: Flavius Vopiscus in Aurelian.c.45, in Hist.