Esse vides lignum; serves nisi lumina, fiet De candelabro magna lucerna tibi. ] [Footnote 42: Cf. Martial, xiv. 121: Sum cochleis habilis, sed nec minus utilis ovis: Numquid scis potius cur cochleare vocer? ] XI.--DRESS AND TOILET. (Table-Case F.) The objects connected with the toilet in Case F are those accessories in metal and other materials that have been preserved. The actual fashion of the dress of the Greeks and Romans can be best studied elsewhere--in the Vase Rooms, the Room of Terracottas, and the Sculpture Galleries. A few words only need be said here as to the principal varieties of costume. =Greek Female Dress.=--The very singular and modern-looking dress of the Minoan ladies may be seen in the facsimiles of Cretan statuettes and carvings in the First Vase Room. [Illustration: FIG. 129.--DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE DORIAN _Chiton_.] The earliest dress of women which is represented in the art of historical Greece is that which was known as the Dorian _chiton_, or tunic. It was an oblong sheet of woollen cloth, measuring rather more than the height of the wearer, and about twice the span of her arms. This blanket was folded as shown in the annexed diagram (fig. 129). The tunic then fell into position about the figure, leaving the arms bare, as in the illustration, which is taken from a toilet-box (E 772) in the Third Vase Room (fig. 130). The dress in its simplest form was now complete, but as one side of it was open, a girdle was usually worn to keep the edges together. At Sparta, where Dorian manners were preserved in their primitive severity, the side remained open. Elsewhere it was partially or completely sewn up. [Illustration: FIG. 130.--THE DORIAN _Chiton_.]