 | Alex Johnston Warden - Fiber plants - 1867 - 840 pages
...for their fineness. Pliny says "some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient...number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which consisted of 150 threads... | |
 | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1874 - 464 pages
...their fineness ; and Pliny says " some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient...number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which consisted of 150 threads;... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. (Hin. xix. 1. Ou the Byssus, see note" oh. 86.) The transparent fineness of the linen dresses of men... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Egypt - 1878 - 548 pages
...of them,' says Pliny,6 ' that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could cany a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which consisted of 150 threads... | |
 | 1879 - 398 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's ring ; and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. The transparent fineness of the linen dresses of men and women in the Egyptian paintings recalls the... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory system - 1886 - 472 pages
...made of the net; "so delicate were some of them," says Pliny, " that they could pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole forest."1 They were chiefly (we may suppose) of the nature of shawls, scarfs, and such like articles... | |
 | 1888 - 590 pages
...texture was extended to the nets of Egypt, which were so delicate that they could pass through a man's ring; and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. The trausparent finenesa of the linen dresses of men and women in the Egyptian paintings recalls the... | |
 | Moustafa Gadalla - Bible - 1999 - 356 pages
...their fineness; and Pliny stated "some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole [forest]. " • Flax was used for making ropes, string, and various kinds of twine. The Egyptians excelled... | |
 | Moustafa Gadalla - Civilization, Western - 2007 - 320 pages
...fineness, and Pliny stated, . . .some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole [forest]. Flax was used for making ropes, string, and various kinds of twine. The Egyptians excelled... | |
 | 1840 - 586 pages
...threads used for nets by the Egyptians, that some of these nets would pass through a man's ring, and one person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Amasis, King of figypt, presented a linen corslet to the Rhodians, of which the threads were each composed... | |
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some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood. Julius Lupus, who died while governor of Egypt, had some of these nets, each string of which... 
