[285] In one of the poems of Shanfara, the Cid of the Arabians, this passage occurs:--“I will not rest till I have raised the dust on every one who wears _kissa_ or _bourd_, of the tribe of Salaman.” This is interpreted to mean that he would lay low the men of note. The word _bourd_ occurs in various places. St. Augustine, speaking of a presbyter, vain and worldly-minded, describes him as “_burda vestitum_.” In Genesis xxxi. 12, the word is used to designate the variegated lambs; and in the Gaelic is translated by the word which they use for “tartan.” It would thus appear to convey rather the idea of colour than of form. Shanfara might have said, if speaking of the Highlands, “Every man who wears _tartan_,” as distinguished from the shepherd plaid. _Kissa_ may have a similar meaning--black and white. It is nowhere mentioned as a dress. _Kisson_, the name of the “ancient brook,” is supposed to be connected with κίσσα of the Greeks, or magpie, (black and white). _Kissa_ may also be _fringe_; for _tzetzith_ (fringe), is cabalistically equal to _kisee_ (throne). [286] Vestes candidæ. Lutatius Ann. on the Thebaid. [287] ἔνδυναί τε καὶ ἐπιβάλλεσθαι.--POLLUX., 1. vii. c. 13. [288] οὐκ ἐνεδύοντο ἀλλ ἐπερονῶντο. [289] πέπλοι ποδήρεις, EURIP.; ἔλκεσιπέτλους--τανύπεπλον--ἄμφι δε πέπλοι πίπτανται. HOMER. “Omnis vestis apud Græcos aut ἐπίβλημα aut ἔνδυμα est; aut amictui, aut indutui. Ἑνδύματα sunt quæ ad corpus prepali hærent, atque indutio corpus comprehendiens. Ἑπιβλήματα vero, quæ et περιβλήματα palliorum omne genus quod cæteris vestimentis circumjecta et superjecta vago et libero discursu eas ambirent.”--SALMASIUS _ad Tertull. de Pall._ Livy, 1. 8; Flor. 1. 5; Plin. viii. 74. ix. 63; Diod. v.; Macrob. Sat. 1. 6; Testus _Verbo_ Sardi, Serv. ad Æn. ii. 781; Isidori Origines, 1. xix. c. 20. [290] Mrs. Hamilton Grey’s object has been to make their affiliation coincide with their character; but identifying the inhabitants of Lydia with those of the Holy Land, their derivation from Lydia presents no difficulty. [291] Dennis, Etruria, Intr. p. xlii. [292] The pallium and the toga were two distinct dresses, but worn together, as the haik and the sulam, by the Moors, the one is put on for the other, or the one with the other. The paludamentum was a small haïk, worn over the armour and fastened on _either_ shoulder with a brooch, like the Scotch plaid: it was not so long as the plaid, and hung down.