Suid. v. Ἀμοργὶς. Aristoph. Lysist. 150, et Schol. This was the rate at which silk was afterwards sold, as we learn from an anecdote of Aurelian. “Vestem holosericam neque ipse in vestiario suo habuit, neque alteri utendam dedit. Et quum ab eo uxor sua peteret, ut unico pallio blatteo serico uteretur, ille respondit, _absit ut auro fila pensentur_: libra enim auri tunc libra serici fuit.” Vopisc. Vit. Aurelian, cap. xlv. Footnote 1297: See Dapper, Description des Iles de l’Archipel. p. 184. Footnote 1298: For which the old man substitutes a fox’s tail. Aristoph. Eq. 906, et Schol. ----- Even from hemp, very superior cloths were produced[1299] in antiquity, especially amongst the Thracians, in whose country this plant was found both in a cultivated and a wild state. It differed very little from flax, except in its superior height and thickness; and the fabrics manufactured from it were not to be distinguished from linen, save by the most experienced judges. From hair, too, they both wove and plaited a variety of garments, among which would seem to have been a sort of mantle for ladies.[1300] Sacks, too, were manufactured from the same materials, together with socks, whips, and fishing-lines. The Egyptians, we may observe by the way, wove fine cloths and sails, and made ropes, from the fibre of the papyrus plant,[1301] as the Indians did from a sort of grass or fine rush.[1302] ----- Footnote 1299: Poll. vii. 73. Herod. iv. 74. Footnote 1300: Hemst. ad Poll. x. 32. Cf. ii. 24. Footnote 1301: Herod. vii. 12. Footnote 1302: Id. iii. 98. Comm. on Poll. vii. 76. -----