Note 064
On the texture, colors, names, and use of the silk, half silk, and liuen garments of antiquity, see the profound, diffuse, and obscure researches of the great Salmasius, (in Hist. August. p. 127, 309, 310, 339, 341, 342, 344, 388 - 391, 395, 513,) who was ignorant of the most common trades of Dijon or Leyden.]
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