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And what was the Latus Clavus? said my father. Rubenius told him, that the point was still litigating amongst the learned: That Egnatius, Sigonius, Bossius Ticinensis, Bayfius Budaeus, Salmasius, Lipsius, Lazius, Isaac Casaubon, and Joseph Scaliger, all differed from each other, and he from them: That some took it to be the button, some the coat itself, others only the colour of it; That the great Bayfuis in his Wardrobe of the Ancients, chap. 12 honestly said, he knew not what it was, whether a tibula, a stud, a button, a loop, a buckle, or clasps and keepers.
Albertus Rubenius informed my father that the Romans manufactured stuffs of various fabrics, some plain, some striped, others diapered throughout the whole contexture of the wool, with silk and gold That linen did not begin to be in common use till towards the declension of the empire, when the Egyptians coming to settle amongst them, brought it into vogue.
On the contrary, my father might as well have thought of extracting the seven cardinal virtues out of a long beard, as of extracting a single word out of Rubenius upon the subject. Upon every other article of ancient dress, Rubenius was very communicative to my father; gave him a full satisfactory account of The Toga, or loose gown. The Chlamys. The Ephod. The Tunica, or Jacket. The Synthesis.
The Paenula. The Lacema, with its Cucullus. The Paludamentum. The Sagum, or soldier's jerkin. The Trabea: of which, according to Suetonius, there was three kinds. But what are all these to the breeches? said my father. Rubenius threw him down upon the counter all kinds of shoes which had been in fashion with the Romans. There was, The open shoe. The close shoe. The slip shoe. The wooden shoe.
Rubenius shewed my father how well they all fitted, in what manner they laced on, with what points, straps, thongs, latchets, ribbands, jaggs, and ends. But I want to be informed about the breeches, said my father.
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