a 3 4 : THE HISTORY feobk i; pattens [Auguftus] domi quoque non hii! Petafatiis fob' Did fpatiabatur, and Montfaucon plate 15. torn* HI. Ii'Ant. ExplU quee. — " And fee Montfaucon ibid. c. 17. He there mentions feme antient reprefentations of Roman Gauls difcovfered in France, the fleeves even of whofe gowns thug reached, to the hands. — ** So the (hoes of the Gauls in plate 47 and 48 of Mont* faucon torn. III. all cover the foot entirely and reach up to the calf. And fee Howel Dha lib. i. c. 39. A. 5. — * 3 The lowes half of the female .gown is called a Skirt to this day in Lanca-* foire. — * 4 Hieme Auguftus— -Subuculae thorace laneo — muni?- batur (Suetonius p. 82), and Horace lib. LEp* 1.— * s Pliny lib. xix. c. 1. — a6 Hift. Aug. Scrip, p. 128,, Paris, Bom linteaminis appetitor fuit [Alexander Severus], dicens, Si lintei idcirco font ut nihil afperum habeant y quid opus r^* Here the exp*effion, Ut nihil afperum habeant, plainly determines thefe Upen garments to be wor ne the next to fthe ikm, and (hews MocitfauCoji and, others to be wrong who date the original of linen flurts lower than this period. — * 7 Howel Dha lib. i. c.39. A. 5* -where the breeches even of the courtvapparitor are mentioned ta have teen of linen ; and, if thefe were,, the fhirt:muft certainly r have rbeetu And fee Baluzius in Capit. torn. II. c. 741. — V v »Aiuguftus-4 Hieme — tibialibusr— muniebahir (Siietoniiasrp^/2)it-rrf?:Sfte b. II. ch. vL £ i. Malmefbury £ $j (Savillefs edit.) aflerts the Saa&oiH to have been Pi&uratis ftigmatibus cutcm infigniti..— '* Pftular timque difqeffum ad delinimenta vitionim^ porticws^bajp^,^ 6f cddviviorum eleganti&m: idque apud imperitas humanitas voqa* batur (Tacitus c..2i)> t— ." Jato vttd. principum filios Uber.aH- bus artibus ferudire — , ut qui modd linguam Roraanam abnue^ bant eloquehtiam concupifcerent (Agric-Vit. c. 21); Martial* . Dicitur & noftros cantare Britannia verfus ; and the Romans .appear in.Dio p. 1007. to have early introduced the fubmitting Britons to an acquaintance with general hiftory*. VI. WHILE