 The clothing in use is a loose mantle, made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fireside. The rich wear a garment, not, indeed, displayed and flowing, like the Parthians,...  A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish ... - Page 315by William Robert Wilde - 1863 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cornelius Tacitus, Arthur Murphy - Rome - 1813
...cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fire-side (b}. The rich wear a garment, not, indeed, displayed and...tight, that the form of the limbs is palpably expressed (c). The skins of wild animals are also much in use. Near the frontier, on the borders of the Rhine,... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831
...because the search would be attended with too much trouble. XVII. The clothing in use is a loose mantle, made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fire-side. The rich wear a garment, not... | |
 | William Robert Wilde - Ireland - 1861
...for Tacitus, writing in the first century, says of the Germans, they wear " a loose mantle (tagum), made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had,...The rich wear a garment, not, indeed, displayed and Sowing, like the Parthians or the people of Sannatia, but drawn so tight that the form of the limbs... | |
 | William Robert Wilde, Royal Irish Academy. Museum - Archaeology - 1863 - 642 pages
...for Tacitus, writing in the first century, says of the Germans, they wear " a loose mantle (sagum), made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had,...that the form of the limbs is palpably expressed." — De MoT. Ger., sec. xvii. — Here we have a perfect description of the brat or mantle, and the... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1872
...instrument of this kind. Tacitus thus describes the dress of the ancient Germans. " A loose mantle, fastened with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn" (Germ. 17). See THORN. 1. nn, chach (lit a thorn), a ring inserted in the nostrils of animals, to which... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - Theology - 1883
...instrument of this kind. Tacitus thus descritas the dress ofthc ancient Germans. "A loose mantle, fastened with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had. with a thorn" (Germ. 17). See THORN. 1. ПП, chach (lit, a thorn), a riny inserted in the nostrils of animals, to... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1894
...instrument of this kind. Tacitus thus describes the dress ofthe ancient Germans. li A loose mantle, fastened with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn" (Germ. 17). Sec THORN. 1. I"in, cAacA (lit a thorn), a ring inserted in the nostrils of animals, to... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1895 - 689 pages
...So late as the first century Tacitus, writing of the Germans, states that they wore 'a loose mantle, made fast with a clasp, or when that cannot be had, with a thorn.' Bone pins vary in length from two to even nine inches; somerof great size have been found in primitive... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - English essays - 1900
...cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fireside. The rich wear a garment, not, indeed, displayed and...that the form of the limbs is palpably expressed. The skins of wild animals are also much in use. Near the Frontier, on the borders of the Rhine, the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900
...because the search would be attended with too much trouble. The clothing in use is a loose mantle, made fast with a clasp, or, when that cannot be had, with a thorn. Naked in other respects, they loiter away whole days by the fireside. The rich wear a garment, not,... | |
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