PHILOCLEON. Ah! I thought it was a wraprascal like those made at Thymaetia.[131]
BDELYCLEON. Pray, how should you know such garments? 'Tis only at Sardis you could have seen them, and you have never been there.
PHILOCLEON. I' faith, no! but it seems to me exactly like the mantle Morychus[132] sports.
BDELYCLEON. Not at all; I tell you they are woven at Ecbatana.
PHILOCLEON. What! are there woollen ox-guts[133] then at Ecbatana?
BDELYCLEON. Whatever are you talking about? These are woven by the Barbarians at great cost. I am certain this pelisse has consumed more than a talent of wool.[134]
[131] A rural deme of Attica. Rough coats were made there, formed of skins sewn together.
[132] An effeminate poet.
[133] He compares the thick, shaggy stuff of the pelisse to the intestines of a bullock, which have a sort of crimped and curled look.
[134] An Attic talent was equal to about fifty-seven pounds avoirdupois.
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