Page:The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances 2.djvu/518

 infer that it was sometimes not larger than a purse for the pocket. Hence Aristotle properly applies the term [Greek: gyrgathos] to the small spherical or oval bag in which spiders deposit their eggs. Among the luxurious habits of the Sicilian prætor Verres, it is recorded, that he had a small and very fine linen net, filled with rose-leaves, "which ever and anon he gave his nose ." This net was, no doubt, called [Greek: gyrgathos] in Greek.THE END.