The same writer says, that “black sheep are rather encouraged here for the wool,” and that “the clothing of the friars is of this undyed wool.” p. 55. From Athenæus[378] we learn the superior excellence of the goats of Scyros and Naxos. [378] Quoted in Chapter I. p. 236. Ælian bears testimony to the same fact, observing, that the cows of Epirus were said to yield the greatest quantity of milk, and the goats of Scyros. Hist. Anim. l. iii. cap. 33. From Tournefort, Sonnini, and other modern travellers we learn, that both Scyros and Naxos are very rocky and mountainous, and that they still produce goats. See also Dapper, Description des Isles de l’Archipel, p. 256. 350. Virgil (_l. c._), after mentioning the use of goats for food, goes on to show their contributions to the _weaver_. Cloth’d in their shaven beards and hoary hair, Fence of the ocean spray and nightly air, The miserable seaman breasts the main, And camps uninjur’d press the marshy plain. _Sotheby’s Translation._ The last line of this passage of Virgil is quoted by Columella (L. vii. 6.) in speaking of the utility of the he-goat; For he himself is shorn “for the use of camps and to make coverings for wretched sailors.” Virgil, moreover, has here followed Varro, who writes thus; As the sheep yields to man wool for clothing, so the goat furnishes hair for the use of sailors, and to make ropes for military engines, and vessels for artificers. * * * * * The goats are shorn in a great part of Phrygia, because there they have long shaggy hair. Cilicia (i. e. hair-cloths), and other things of the same kind, are commonly imported from that country. The name _Cilicia_ is said to be derived from the circumstance, that in Cilicia goats were first shorn for this purpose. _De Re Rustica_, L. ii. _c._ ii. _p._ 201. _ed. Bip._ The language of Varro in this passage indicates, that the female goat was shorn as well as the male; and that the excellence of goats’-hair, which was used only for coarse articles, consisted in its length. Columella mentions the long bristly hair of the Cilician goats[379]. [379] Setosum, quale est in Cilicia. De Re Rustica, l. i. Præf. p. 20. ed. Bip. Aristotle says, “In Lycia goats are shorn, as sheep are in other countries.” _Hist. Anim._ viii. 28. This testimony of Aristotle agrees with that of his nephew and pupil, Callisthenes, who says (_ap. Ælian. de Nat. Anim._ xvi. 30.), “that in Lycia goats are shorn just as sheep are everywhere else; for that they have a very thick coat of excellent hair, hanging from them in locks or curls; and that this hair is twisted so as to make ropes, which are used in navigation instead of cables.”