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 thereof into their cloakes, called Pallia, as some of the Irish also use. And the auncient Latines and Romans used it, as you may read in Virgil, who was a very great antiquary : That Evander, when Æneas came to him at his feast, did entertaine and feast him, sitting on the ground, and lying on mantles. Insomuch as he useth the very word mantile for a mantle.

" Humi mantilia sternunt." ] So that it seemeth that the mantle was a generall hahite to most nations, and not proper to the Scythians onely, as you suppose.